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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

William Penn

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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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Nothing
Good
Men
Life
Hereafter
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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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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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Show is not substance realities govern wise men.
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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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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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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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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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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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