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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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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.
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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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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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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.
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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
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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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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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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.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.
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You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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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.
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