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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.
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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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Let us see what love can do.
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Let us try what love will do.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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