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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Philosopher
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London
England
William Penn
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
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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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Experience is a safe guide.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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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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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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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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Let us see what love can do.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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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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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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