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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
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London
England
William Penn
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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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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Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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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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