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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
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Avoid popularity it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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