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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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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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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume but a good stomach excels them all.
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The best recreation is to do good.
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For we put the power in the people.
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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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Never despise what you don't understand.
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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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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
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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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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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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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