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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
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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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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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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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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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Perfect love casteth out fear.
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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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