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Avoid popularity it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
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Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
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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.
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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.
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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
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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.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
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