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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.

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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
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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
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Let us try what love will do.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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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 a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of 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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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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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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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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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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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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