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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

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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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A private Life is to be preferrd the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
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Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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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. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
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Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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