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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
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London
England
William Penn
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The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
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We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.
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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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Be rather bountiful, than expensive.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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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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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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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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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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