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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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England
William Penn
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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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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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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Let us see what love can do.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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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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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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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 tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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Avoid popularity it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
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