1st Earl Cowley

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    The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent
    That Angels led him when from thee he went,
    For even in Error sure no Danger is
    When joyn’d with so much Piety as His.
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)