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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. ↗

— William Penn

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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. ↗

— William Penn

#force #forgives #gains #laurel #love

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying. ↗

— William Penn

#fears #forever #live #lives #never

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. ↗

— William Penn

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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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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ↗

— William Penn

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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. ↗

— William Penn

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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. ↗

— William Penn

#double #humble #humility #jewel #kingdom

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. ↗

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

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