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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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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
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Kindness
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
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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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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
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The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
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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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Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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