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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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Oppression makes a poor country.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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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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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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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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It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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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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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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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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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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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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