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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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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
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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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Perfect love casteth out fear.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
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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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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.
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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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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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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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
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It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
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