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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
William Penn
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Recreation
Philanthropy
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Good

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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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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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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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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Let us try what love will do.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
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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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Oppression makes a poor country.
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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It is safer to learn than teach and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
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You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
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