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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Let us see what love can do.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
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Peace can only be secured by justice never by force of arms.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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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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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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