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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.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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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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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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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
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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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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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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 secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.
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