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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

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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
Wise
Knowledge
Men
Treasure

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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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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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Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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Death cannot kill that which does not die.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
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