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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
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
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Choose
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Eye
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
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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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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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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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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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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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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
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Never despise what you don't understand.
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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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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
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