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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
Enquiry
Ground
Lost
Truth
Never

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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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Never despise what you don't understand.
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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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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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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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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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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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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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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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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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