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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

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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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Beauty
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Truth
Good
Oftener
Serves
Rhetoric
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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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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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The best recreation is to do good.
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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Never give out while there is hope but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.
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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too and take nothing ill where no ill is meant nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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