“One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian
The Good Advocate.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
Farai'd al-Kalam li'l-Khulafa' al-Kiram, p. 269
“One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian
The Good Advocate.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator
Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 13, p. 29.
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Narrated Abu Huraira, in Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 46
Sunni Hadith
John B. Tabb (1845–1909) American poet
"The Stranger", in Poems (1894) http://www.archive.org/details/poemsjohntabb00tabbrich
“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
John Ruskin book The Stones of Venice
Volume III, chapter II, section 99.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Source: The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations