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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
Knowledge
Men
Treasure
Wise

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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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But make not more business necessary than is so and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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He that lives in love lives in God.
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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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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
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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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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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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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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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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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Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
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And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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