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From Quotes by William Penn
- 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,…
- Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined…
- It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
- If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
- [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…
- For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
- For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of…
- Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than…
- Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined…
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers
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