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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Philosopher
Politician
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London
England
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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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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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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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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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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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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them they are notable measures of directions for human life you have much in little they save time in speaking and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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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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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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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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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
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We are too careless of posterity not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
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