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Haste makes work which caution prevents.

William Penn

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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
Prevents
Haste
Caution
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Work

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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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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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Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
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Peace can only be secured by justice never by force of arms.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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Never despise what you don't understand.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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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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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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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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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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For we put the power in the people.
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