William Penn - True Quotes

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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely,... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

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Friends are true Twins in Soul; they Sympathize in every thing, and have the Love and Aversion. One is not happy without the other, nor can either of them be miserable alone. As if they could change Bodies, they take their turns in Pain as well as in Pleasure; relieving one another in their most adverse Conditions. What one enjoys, the other cannot Want. Like the Primitive Christians, they have all things in common, and no Property but in one another.

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

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True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

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They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

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