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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

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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
Never
Enquiry
Ground
Lost
Truth

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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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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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But make not more business necessary than is so and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage the requisite Means being wanting.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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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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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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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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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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