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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
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London
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
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Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
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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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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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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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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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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
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We are too careless of posterity not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
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They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage the requisite Means being wanting.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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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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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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