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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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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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Oppression makes a poor country.
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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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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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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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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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He that lives in love lives in God.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a 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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