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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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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.
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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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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
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It is safer to learn than teach and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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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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Children, Fear God that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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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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