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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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The best recreation is to do good.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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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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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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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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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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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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Death cannot kill that which does not die.
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