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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
William Penn
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It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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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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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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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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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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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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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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Let us see what love can do.
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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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Death cannot kill that which does not die.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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