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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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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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Perfect love casteth out fear.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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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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Never despise what you don't understand.
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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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Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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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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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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