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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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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
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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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Death cannot kill that which does not die.
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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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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?
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It is safer to learn than teach and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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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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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them they are notable measures of directions for human life you have much in little they save time in speaking and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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