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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
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London
England
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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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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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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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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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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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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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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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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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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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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All excess is ill but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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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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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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