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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
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
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Recreation
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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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Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
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It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
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It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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Let us try what love will do.
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.
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Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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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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