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William Penn Quotes: If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
         

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.


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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.



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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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