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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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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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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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But make not more business necessary than is so and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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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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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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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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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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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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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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