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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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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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He that lives in love lives in God.
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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of 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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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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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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Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.
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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Never give out while there is hope but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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Never despise what you don't understand.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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