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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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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
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London
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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.
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Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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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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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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Children, Fear God that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
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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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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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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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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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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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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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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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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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