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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Philosopher
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London
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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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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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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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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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The public must and will be served.
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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