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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage the requisite Means being wanting.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
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