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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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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
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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 severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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Oppression makes a poor country.
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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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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God nor can we fear what we do not believe.
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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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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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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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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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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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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