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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
Folly
Speaking
Silence
Wisdom

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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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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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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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Naked Truth needs no shift.
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
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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.
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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Perfect love casteth out fear.
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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
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But make not more business necessary than is so and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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