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A private Life is to be preferrd the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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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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Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?
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Let us try what love will do.
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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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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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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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Death cannot kill that which does not die.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them they are notable measures of directions for human life you have much in little they save time in speaking and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
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