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It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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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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Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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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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The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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The best recreation is to do good.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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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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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
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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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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them they are notable measures of directions for human life you have much in little they save time in speaking and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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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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