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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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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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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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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume but a good stomach excels them all.
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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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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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Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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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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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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