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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

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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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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. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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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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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too and take nothing ill where no ill is meant nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
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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 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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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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