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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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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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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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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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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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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
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Let us see what love can do.
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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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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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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Naked Truth needs no shift.
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For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
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