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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
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London
England
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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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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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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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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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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
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Never give out while there is hope but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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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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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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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. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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