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Quotes from Fruits of Solitude — William Penn

1644–1718 England

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They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

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It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.

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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies.

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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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Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.

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It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.

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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

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In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.

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Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

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Time is what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst; and for which God will certainly most strictly reckon with us, when Time shall be no more.

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As Puppets are to Men, and Babies to Children, so is Man’s Workmanship to God’s: We are the Picture, he the Reality.

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The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

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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 from the arguments of its opposers.

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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

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Rex & Tyrannus are very different Characters: One Rules his People by Laws, to which they consent; the other by his absolute Will and Power.

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Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.

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Let the People think they Govern and they will be Governed.

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It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Penn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.