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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
England
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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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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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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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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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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You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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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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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
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