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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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