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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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London
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Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
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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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Children, Fear God that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
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Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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Perfect love casteth out fear.
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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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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
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Avoid popularity it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.
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Be rather bountiful, than expensive.
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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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