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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

William Penn

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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
Truest
Sympathy
Death
Ends
Never
Life

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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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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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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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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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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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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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Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
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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.
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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