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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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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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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
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It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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He that lives in love lives in God.
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.
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