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

~William Penn

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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

~William Penn

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Leader

Born: October 14th, 1644

Died: July 30th, 1718

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