William Penn quotes - page 6

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still. (William Penn)
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man's use more than his own.
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God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.
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Eat therefore to live, and do not live to eat.
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Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.
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A private Life is to be preferred the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume but a good stomach excels them all.
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I know what is said by the several admirers of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, which are the rule of one, a few, and many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject. But I chuse to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. (William Penn)
It is a severe Rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many Allowances, and we make so few to our Neighbor: As if Charity had nothing to do with Religion; Or Love with Faith, that ought to work by it.
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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies. Nor can Spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same Divine Principle; the Root and Record of their Friendship. If Absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent. In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure. 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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