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Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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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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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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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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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
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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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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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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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Never despise what you don't understand.
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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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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
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