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Let us try what love will do.

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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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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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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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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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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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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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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.
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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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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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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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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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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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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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A private Life is to be preferrd the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
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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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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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