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Death cannot kill that which does not die.

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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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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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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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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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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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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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The public must and will be served.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
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Peace can only be secured by justice never by force of arms.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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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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