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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Philosopher
Politician
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London
England
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
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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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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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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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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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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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