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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
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Children, Fear God that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
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The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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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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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
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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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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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Let us see what love can do.
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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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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
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Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
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