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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
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London
England
William Penn
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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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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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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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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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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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage the requisite Means being wanting.
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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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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise 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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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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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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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
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