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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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Children, Fear God that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
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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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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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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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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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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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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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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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For we put the power in the people.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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