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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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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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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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Next to God, thy parents.
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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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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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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them they are notable measures of directions for human life you have much in little they save time in speaking and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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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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Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
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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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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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Let us try what love will do.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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