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The best recreation is to do good.

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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
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Recreation
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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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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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Never marry but for love but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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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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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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Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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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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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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