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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

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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
William Penn
Censure
Blame
Help
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Heart

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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.
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This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
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