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It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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London
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
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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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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
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