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Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
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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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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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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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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.
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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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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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
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But make not more business necessary than is so and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
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