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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
Ground
Lost
Truth
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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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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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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For we put the power in the people.
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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.
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
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Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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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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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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Avoid popularity it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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