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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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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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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too and take nothing ill where no ill is meant nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.
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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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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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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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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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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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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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Be rather bountiful, than expensive.
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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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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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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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