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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Philosopher
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London
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Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
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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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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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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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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.
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Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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