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The usefulest truths are the plainest.

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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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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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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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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
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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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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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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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But make not more business necessary than is so and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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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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