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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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The best recreation is to do good.
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Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
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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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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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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
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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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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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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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Never despise what you don't understand.
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
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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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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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