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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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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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We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.
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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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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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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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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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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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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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