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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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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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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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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
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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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Children, Fear God that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
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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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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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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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