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Than Quotes by William Penn
- For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to…
- It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
- Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
- We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
- Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
- Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
- 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…
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