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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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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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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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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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