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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

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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
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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Death cannot kill that which does not die.
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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
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Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
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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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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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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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All excess is ill but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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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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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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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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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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