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Oppression makes a poor country.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Philosopher
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London
England
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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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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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It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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