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Death Is But Crossing The World, As Friends Do The Seas; They Live In One Another Still. For They Must Needs Be Present, That Love And Live In That Which Is Omnipresent. In This Divine Glass, They See Face To Face; And Their Converse Is Free As Well As Pure. 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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Death Is But Crossing

William Penn

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Death Is But Crossing The World, As Friends Do The Seas; They Live In One Another Still. For They Must Needs Be Present, That Love And Live In That Which Is Omnipresent. In This Divine Glass, They See Face To Face; And Their Converse Is Free As Well As Pure. 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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Never Give Out While There Is Hope; But Hope Not Beyond Reason, For That Shows More Desire Than Judgement.

I Shall Pass Through Life But Once. Let Me Show Kindness Now, As I Shall Not Pass This Way Again.

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To Be Innocent Is To Be Not Guilty; But To Be Virtuous Is To Overcome Our Evil Inclinations.

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To Be A Man's Own Fool Is Bad Enough, But The Vain Man Is Everybody's.

Show Is Not Substance; Realities Govern Wise Men.

Kings In This World Should Imitate God, Their Mercy Should Be Above Their Works.

Love Grows. Lust Wastes By Enjoyment, And The Reason Is, That One Springs From An Union Of Souls, And The Other From An Union Of Sense.

The Country Life Is To Be Preferred, For There We See The Works Of God; But In Cities Little Else But The Works Of Men. And The One Makes A Better Subject For Contemplation Than The Other.

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In Marriage Do Thou Be Wise: Prefer The Person Before Money, Virtue Before Beauty, The Mind Before The Body; Then Thou Hast A Wife, A Friend, A Companion, A Second Self.

And He That Is Taught To Live Upon Little, Owes More To His Father's Wisdom, Than He That Has A Great Deal Left Him, Does To His Father's Care.

If Thou Wouldst Be Happy, Bring Thy Mind To Thy Condition, And Have An Indifferency For More Than What Is Sufficient.

They That Marry For Money Cannot Have The True Satisfaction Of Marriage; The Requisite Means Being Wanting.

Force May Make Hypocrites, But It Can Never Make Converts.

We Are Apt To Be Very Pert At Censuring Others, Where We Will Not Endure Advice.

If Thou Wouldst Rule Well, Thou Must Rule For God, And To Do That, Thou Must Be Ruled By Him. Those Who Will Not Be Governed By God Will Be Ruled By Tyrants.

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To Be Furious In Religion Is To Be Irreligiously Religious.

If Thou Wouldn't Conquer Thy Weakness Thou Must Not Gratify It.

The Receipts Of Cookery Are Swelled To A Volume; But A Good Stomach Excels Them All.

A Private Life Is To Be Preferrd; The Honour And Gain Of Publick Posts, Bearing No Proportion With The Comfort Of It.

Friendship Is The Union Of Spirits, A Marriage Of Hearts, And The Bond Thereof Virtue

Never Esteem People (including Yourself) More Because They Have Money, Nor Think Less Of Anyone (including Yourself) Because They Lack It. Virtue Is The Only Just Reason For Respecting Anyone, Lack Of Virtue The Only Reason For Holding Anyone In Low Regard.

He Who Gives To The Poor, Lends To The Lord. But It May Be Said, Not Improperly, The Lord Lends To Us To Give To The Poor.

Between A Man And His Wife Nothing Ought To Rule But Love. Believe Nothing Against Another But On Good Authority; And Never Report What May Hurt Another, Unless It Be A Greater Hurt To Some Other To Conceal It.

Disappointments That Aren't A Result Of Our Own Foolishness Are A Testing Of Our Faith Or A Correction From Heaven, And It Is Our Own Fault If These Disappointments Don't Work For Our Own Good.

Avoid Flatterers, For They Are Thieves In Disguise.

For Nothing Reaches The Heart But What Is From The Heart, Or Pierces The Conscience But What Comes From A Living Conscience

To Hazard Much To Get Much Has More Of Avarice Than Wisdom.

A Wise Neuter Joins With Neither, But Uses Both As His Honest Interest Leads Him.

I Know No Religion That Destroys Courtesy, Civility, And Kindness.

Avoid Popularity; It Has Many Snares, And No Real Benefit.

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Those Who Live To Live Forever, Never Fear Dying.

The Unspoken Word Never Defeats One. What One Does Not Say Does Not Have To Be Explained.

The Country Is Both The Philosopher's Garden And His Library, In Which He Reads And Contemplates The Power, Wisdom And Goodness Of God.

Let Us See What Love Can Do.

Anything Less Than Full Justice Is Cruelty.

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom.

That Plenty Should Produce Either Covetousness Or Prodigality Is A Perversion Of Providence; And Yet The Generality Of Men Are The Worse For Their Riches.

The Truest End Of Life Is To Know The Life That Never Ends.

To Have Religion Upon Authority, And Not Upon Conviction, Is Like A Finger-watch, To Be Set Forwards Or Backwards, As He Pleases That Has It In Keeping.

Never Despise What You Don't Understand.

If A Civil Word Or Two Will Render A Man Happy, He Must Be A Wretch Indeed Who Will Not Give Them To Him. Such A Disposition Is Like Lighting Another Man's Candle By One's Own, Which Loses None Of Its Brilliancy By What The Other Gains.

Hasty Resolutions Are Of The Nature Of Vows, And To Be Equally Avoided.

A Good End Cannot Sanctify Evil Means; Nor Must We Ever Do Evil That Good May Come Of It. We Are Too Ready To Retaliate, Rather Than Forgive, Or Gain By Love And Information. And Yet We Could Hurt No Man That We Believe Loves Us. Let Us, Then, Try What Love Will Do: For If Men Do Once See That We Love Them, We Should Soon Find They Would Not Harm Us. Force May Subdue, But Love Gains; And He That Forgives First, Wins The Laurel.

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Friendship Is The Next Pleasure We May Hope For: And Where We Find It Not At Home, Or Have No Home To Find It In, We May Seek It Abroad. It Is An Union Of Spirits, A Marriage Of Hearts, And The Bond Thereof Virtue.

The Usefullest Truths Are Plainest; And While We Keep To Them, Our Differences Cannot Rise High.

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If We Would Mend The World, We Should Mend Ourselves; And Teach Our Children To Be, Not What We Are, But What They Should Be.

Oppression Makes A Poor Country.

For Disappointments, That Come Not By Our Own Folly, They Are The Trials Or Corrections Of Heaven: And It Is Our Own Fault, If They Prove Not Our Advantage.

Experience Is A Safe Guide.

If Thou Thinkest Twice Before Thou Speakest Once, Thou Wilt Speak Twice The Better For It.

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If Thou Rise With An Appetite, Thou Art Sure Never To Sit Down Without One.

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They That Censure, Should Practice. Or Else Let Them Have The First Stone, And The Last Too.

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You Are Englishmen; Mind Your Privileges, Give Not Away Your Right.

Do What Good Thou Canst Unknown, And Be Not Vain Of What Ought Rather To Be Felt Than Seen.

Let Men Be Good, And The Government Cannot Be Bad.

It Is A Severe Rebuke Upon Us, That God Makes Us So Many Allowances, And We Make So Few To Our Neighbour.

Tis The Glory Of A Man To Vail To Truth; As It Is The Mark Of A Good Nature To Be Easily Entreated.

Sense Shines With Double Lustre When Set In Humility.

Inquiry Is Human; Blind Obedience Brutal. Truth Never Loses By The One But Often Suffers By The Other.

It Is A Cruel Folly To Offer Up To Ostentation So Many Lives Of Creatures, As To Make Up The State Of Our Treats.

There Is A Troublesome Humor Some Men Have, That If They May Not Lead, They Will Not Follow; But Had Rather A Thing Were Never Done, Than Not Done Their Own Way, Tho' Other Ways Very Desirable.

Wherefore, Brethren, Let Us Be Careful Neither To Out-go Our Guide, Nor Yet Loiter Behind Him; Since He That Makes Haste, May Miss His Way, And He That Stays Behind, Lose His Guide.

False-dealing Travels A Short Road, And Surely Detected.

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.

We Are Too Apt To Love Praise, But Not To Deserve It.

Naked Truth Needs No Shift.

Humility And Knowledge In Poor Clothes Excel Pride And Ignorance In Costly Attire.

Were The Superfluities Of A Nation Valued, And Made A Perpetual Tax Or Benevolence, There Would Be More Alms-houses Than Poor, Schools Than Scholars, And Enough To Spare For Government Besides.

Knowledge Is The Treasure, But Judgment The Treasurer, Of A Wise Man.

Let Us Try What Love Will Do.

Truth Never Lost Ground By Enquiry.

Love Labour: For If Thou Dost Not Want It For Food, Thou Mayest For Physique. It Is Wholesome For The Body, And Good For The Mind. It Prevents The Fruits Of Idleness, Which Many Times Come Of Nothing To Do, And Leads Many To Do What Is Worse Than Nothing.

All Excess Is Ill, But Drunkenness Is Of The Worst Sort. It Spoils Health, Dismounts The Mind, And Unmans Men. It Reveals Secrets, Is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous And Mad. In Fine, He That Is Drunk Is Not A Man: Because He Is So Long Void Of Reason, That Distinguishes A Man From A Beast.

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Only Trust Thyself, And Another Shall Not Betray Thee.

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The Adventure Of The Christian Life Begins When We Dare To Do What We Would Never Tackle Without Christ.

They Have A Right To Censure That Have A Heart To Help.

Wit Gives An Edge To Sense, And Recommends It Extremely.

Interest Has The Security, Though Not The Virtue Of A Principle. As The World Goes, It Is The Surest Side; For Men Daily Leave Both Relations And Religion To Follow It.

Eat... To Live, And Do Not Live To Eat.

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