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He that lives in love lives in God.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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England
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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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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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Never give out while there is hope but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
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Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
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Never despise what you don't understand.
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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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[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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It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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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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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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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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Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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But make not more business necessary than is so and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
William Penn
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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