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Let us try what love will do.
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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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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A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
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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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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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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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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.
William Penn
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This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
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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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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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Let us see what love can do.
William Penn