William Penn Quotes
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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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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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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul. Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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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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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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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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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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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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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.