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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
William Penn
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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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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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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Though 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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By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
William Penn
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
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That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they may bear, or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first, and standing testimony: with this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world.
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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It is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
William Penn
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William Penn
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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
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They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.
William Penn