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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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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
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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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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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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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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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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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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
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It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
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Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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The best recreation is to do good.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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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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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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