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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
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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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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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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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It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
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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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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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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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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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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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