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It is safer to learn than teach and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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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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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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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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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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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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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God nor can we fear what we do not believe.
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