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Quote by Thomas Paine
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. - Thom

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. – Thomas Paine

Other quotes by Thomas Paine

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. – Thomas Paine

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Freedom
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Thomas Paine
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. – Thomas Paine

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smile
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Thomas Paine
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. – Xenophanes

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume

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Truth

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it. – Patrick Henry

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Truth

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. – Lao Tzu

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Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. – John Millington Synge

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