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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
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
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Love
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Hardest
Lessons
Christianity
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Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
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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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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
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Let us try what love will do.
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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.
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Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
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