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Experience is a safe guide.

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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
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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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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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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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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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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