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The best recreation is to do good.

William Penn

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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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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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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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Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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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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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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