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If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
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London
England
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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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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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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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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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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We are too careless of posterity not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them they are notable measures of directions for human life you have much in little they save time in speaking and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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