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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume but a good stomach excels them all.
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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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Naked Truth needs no shift.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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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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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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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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If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is 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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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
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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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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
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