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Next to God, thy parents.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
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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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Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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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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It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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Let us see what love can do.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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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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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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