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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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England
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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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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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found 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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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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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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Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
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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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[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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