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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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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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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
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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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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
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Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.
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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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