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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
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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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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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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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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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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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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly
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Oppression makes a poor country.
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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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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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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Never marry but for love but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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