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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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Knowledge is the treasure 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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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.
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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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Let us try what love will do.
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Be rather bountiful, than expensive.
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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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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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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.
William Penn
The best recreation is to do good.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
William Penn
You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.
William Penn
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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