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A private Life is to be preferrd the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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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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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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He that lives in love lives in God.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too and take nothing ill where no ill is meant nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.
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Let us see what love can do.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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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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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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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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