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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

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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
William Penn
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Men
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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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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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The best recreation is to do good.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
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Never despise what you don't understand.
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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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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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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Avoid popularity it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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