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Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
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London
England
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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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