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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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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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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
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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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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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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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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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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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Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
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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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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage the requisite Means being wanting.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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