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Life Quotes by William Penn
- In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good…
- The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
- The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men.…
- I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
- It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
- The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
- Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
- A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
- The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human…
- It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
- Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
- Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to…
- No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
- Wisdom is a life that knows it is living
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle