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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

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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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.
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There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too and take nothing ill where no ill is meant nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.
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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
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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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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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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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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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