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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
Wilt
Twice
Thou
Speak
Better

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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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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.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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Naked Truth needs no shift.
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There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
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Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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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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[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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