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Let us see what love can 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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Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
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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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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
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