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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

William Penn

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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
England
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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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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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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