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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
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For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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Naked Truth needs no shift.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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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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And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
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If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage the requisite Means being wanting.
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Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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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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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
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