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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
Treasure
Wise
Knowledge
Men

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God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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Death cannot kill that which does not die.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
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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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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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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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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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He that lives in love lives in God.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
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