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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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If A Civil Word

William Penn

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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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The Usefulest Truths Are The Plainest.

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It Would Go A Long Way To Caution And Direct People In Their Use Of The World That They Would Better Studied And Known In The Creation Of It. For How Could Man Find The Confidence To Abuse It, While They Should See The Great Creator Stare Them In The Face, In All And Every Part Thereof?

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Five Things Are Requisite To A Good Officer — Ability, Clean Hands, Despatch, Patience, And Impartiality.

The Unspoken Word Never Defeats One. What One Does Not Say Does Not Have To Be Explained.

I Expect To Pass Through This World But Once. Any Good Therefore That I Can Do ... Let Me Do It Now.

No Religion Is Better Than An Unnatural One.

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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.

A Wise Neuter Joins With Neither, But Uses Both As His Honest Interest Leads Him.

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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Rarely Promise, But, If Lawful, Constantly Perform.

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If Thy Debtor Be Honest And Capable, Thou Hast Thy Money Again, If Not With Increase, With Praise; If He Prove Insolvent, Don't Ruin Him To Get That Which It Will Not Ruin Thee To Lose, For Thou Art But A Steward.

They That Censure, Should Practice. Or Else Let Them Have The First Stone, And The Last Too.

There Is A Troublesome Humor Some Men Have, That If They May Not Lead, They Will Not Follow; But Had Rather A Thing Were Never Done, Than Not Done Their Own Way, Tho' Other Ways Very Desirable.

For Though Death Be A Dark Passage, It Leads To Immortality, And That Is Recompence Enough For Suffering Of It.

Charity Is ... A Universal Remedy Against Discord, And An Holy Cement For Mankind.

The Country Is Both The Philosopher's Garden And His Library, In Which He Reads And Contemplates The Power, Wisdom And Goodness Of God.

Kings In This World Should Imitate God, Their Mercy Should Be Above Their Works.

Do Good With What Thou Hast, Or It Will Do Thee No Good.

Dislike What Deserves It, But Never Hate: For That Is Of The Nature Of Malice; Which Is Almost Ever To Persons, Not Things, And Is One Of The Blackest Qualities Sin Begets In The Soul.

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True Silence Is The Rest Of The Mind, And Is To The Spirit What Sleep Is To The Body, Nourishment And Refreshment.

Death Is Only A Horizon, And A Horizon Is Only The Limit Of Your Sight. Open Your Eyes To See More Clearly.

Unless Virtue Guide Us Our Choice Must Be Wrong.

To Hazard Much To Get Much Has More Of Avarice Than Wisdom.

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Though Our Savior's Passion Is Over, His Compassion Is Not.

Nothing Shows Our Weakness More Than To Be So Sharp-sighted At Spying Other Men's Faults, And So Purblind About Our Own.

Where Example Keeps Pace With Authority, Power Hardly Fails To Be Obey'd.

Religion Is The Fear Of God, And Its Demonstration Good Works; And Faith Is The Root Of Both: For Without Faith We Cannot Please God; Nor Can We Fear What We Do Not Believe.

The Jealous Are Troublesome To Others, But A Torment To Themselves.

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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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.

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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To Be A Man's Own Fool Is Bad Enough, But The Vain Man Is Everybody's.

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Force May Subdue, But Love Gains, And He That Forgives First Wins The Laurel.

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The Truest End Of Life Is To Know The Life That Never Ends.

Speak Properly, And In As Few Words As You Can, But Always Plainly; For The End Of Speech Is Not Ostentation, But To Be Understood.

Frugality Is Good If Liberality Be Joined With It. The First Is Leaving Off Superfluous Expenses; The Last Is Bestowing Them To The Benefit Of Others That Need. The First Without The Last Begets Covetousness; The Last Without The First Begets Prodigality.

Men Being Born With A Title To Perfect Freedom And Uncontrolled Enjoyment Of All The Rights And Privileges Of The Law Of Nature. No One Can Be Put Out Of His Estate And Subjected To The Political View Of Another, Without His Consent.

False-dealing Travels A Short Road, And Surely Detected.

Between A Man And His Wife Nothing Ought To Rule But Love. Authority Is For Children And Servants, Yet Not Without Sweetness.

Be Sure That Religion Cannot Be Right That A Man Is The Worse For Having.

Love Is The Hardest Lesson In Christianity; But, For That Reason, It Should Be Most Our Care To Learn It.

Show Is Not Substance; Realities Govern Wise Men.

You Are Englishmen; Mind Your Privileges, Give Not Away Your Right.

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.

Inquiry Is Human; Blind Obedience Brutal. Truth Never Loses By The One But Often Suffers By The Other.

To Be Furious In Religion Is To Be Irreligiously Religious.

Love Labour: For If Thou Dost Not Want It For Food, Thou Mayest For Physique. It Is Wholesome For The Body, And Good For The Mind. It Prevents The Fruits Of Idleness, Which Many Times Come Of Nothing To Do, And Leads Many To Do What Is Worse Than Nothing.

Those Who Live To Live Forever, Never Fear Dying.

The Best Recreation Is To Do Good.

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.

I Shall Pass Through Life But Once. Let Me Show Kindness Now, As I Shall Not Pass This Way Again.

It Is Not Only A Troublesome But Slavish To Be Nice [fastidious].

Excess In Apparel Is Another Costly Folly. The Very Trimming Of The Vain World Would Clothe All The Naked Ones.

If You Protect A Man From Folly, You Will Soon Have A Nation Of Fools.

Friendship Is The Next Pleasure We May Hope For: And Where We Find It Not At Home, Or Have No Home To Find It In, We May Seek It Abroad. It Is An Union Of Spirits, A Marriage Of Hearts, And The Bond Thereof Virtue.

It Were Endless To Dispute Upon Everything That Is Disputable.

Death Then, Being The Way And Condition Of Life, We Cannot Love To Live If We Cannot Bear To Die.

To Do Evil That Good May Come Of It Is For Bunglers In Politics As Well As Morals.

A Man, Like A Watch, Is To Be Valued For His Manner Of Going.

Never Marry But For Love; But See That Thou Lov'st What Is Lovely.

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom.

Death Is But Crossing The World, As Friends Do The Seas; They Live In One Another Still. For They Must Needs Be Present, That Love And Live In That Which Is Omnipresent. In This Divine Glass, They See Face To Face; And Their Converse Is Free As Well As Pure. 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.

It Would Be Far Better To Be Of No Church Than To Be Bitter Of Any.

Where Charity Keeps Pace With Gain, Industry Is Blessed.

Religion Itself Is Nothing Else But Love To God And Man. He That Lives In Love Lives In God, Says The Beloved Disciple: And To Be Sure A Man Can Live No Where Better.

Passion Is The Mob Of The Man, That Commits A Riot Upon His Reason.

Nothing But A Good Life Can Fit Men For A Better One Hereafter.

But Make Not More Business Necessary Than Is So; And Rather Lessen Than Augment Work For Thyself.

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.

Anything Less Than Full Justice Is Cruelty.

Cunning To Wise, Is As An Ape To A Man.

Tis The Glory Of A Man To Vail To Truth; As It Is The Mark Of A Good Nature To Be Easily Entreated.

Force May Make Hypocrites, But It Can Never Make Converts.

Only Trust Thyself, And Another Shall Not Betray Thee.

He That Does Good For Good's Sake Seeks Neither Paradise Nor Reward, But He Is Sure Of Both In The End.

You Are Now Fixed At The Mercy Of No Governor That Comes To Make His Fortune Great; You Shall Be Governed By Laws Of Your Own Making And Live A Free, And If You Will, A Sober And Industrious Life. I Shall Not Usurp The Right Of Any, Or Oppress His Person. God Has Furnished Me With A Better Resolution And Has Given Me His Grace To Keep It.

Truth Never Lost Ground By Enquiry.

We Are Too Apt To Love Praise, But Not To Deserve It.

Naked Truth Needs No Shift.

It Is A Severe Rebuke Upon Us, That God Makes Us So Many Allowances, And We Make So Few To Our Neighbour.

Death Is But Crossing The World, As Friends Do The Seas; They Live In One Another Still.

Many Able Gardeners And Husbandmen Are Yet Ignorant Of The Reason Of Their Calling; As Most Artificers Are Of The Reason Of Their Own Rules That Govern Their Excellent Workmanship. But A Naturalist And Mechanick Of This Sort Is Master Of The Reason Of Both, And Might Be Of The Practice Too, If His Industry Kept Pace With His Speculation; Which Were Every Commendable; And Without Which He Cannot Be Said To Be A Complete Naturalist Or Mechanick.

If It Be An Evil To Judge Rashly Or Untruly Any Single Man, How Much A Greater Sin It Is To Condemn A Whole People.

For As Men In Battle Are Continually In The Way Of Shot, So We, In This World, Are Ever Within The Reach Of Temptation.

Never Give Out While There Is Hope; But Hope Not Beyond Reason, For That Shows More Desire Than Judgement.

That All Persons Living In This Province, Who Confess And Acknowledge The One Almighty And Eternal God, To Be The Creator, Upholder And Ruler Of The World; And That Hold Themselves Obliged In Conscience To Live Peaceably And Justly In Civil Society, Shall, In No Ways, Be Molested Or Prejudiced For Their Religious Persuasion, Or Practice, In Manners Of Faith And Worship, Nor Shall They Be Compelled, At Any Time, To Frequent Or Maintain Any Religious Worship, Place Or Ministry Whatever.

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.

We Are Apt To Love Praise, But Not Deserve It. But If We Would Deserve It, We Must Love Virtue More Than That.

If Thou Thinkest Twice Before Thou Speakest Once, Thou Wilt Speak Twice The Better For It.

Governments, Like Clocks, Go From The Motion Men Give Them, And As Governments Are Made And Moved By Men, So By Them They Are Ruined Too. Wherefore Governments Rather Depend Upon Men, Than Men Upon Governments. Let Men Be Good, And The Government Cannot Be Bad; If It Be Ill, They Will Cure It. But If Men Be Bad, Let The Government Be Never So Good, They Will Endeavour To Warp And Spoil It To Their Turn.

Let Us Then Try What Love Will Do: For If Men Do Once See We Love Them, We Should Soon Find They Would Not Harm Us.

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, And Just Are Everywhere Of One Religion; And When Death Has Taken Off The Mask They Will Know One Another, Though The Diverse Liveries They Wear Here Make Them Strangers.

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.

Children, Fear God; That Is To Say, Have An Holy Awe Upon Your Minds To Avoid That Which Is Evil, And A Strict Care To Embrace And Do That Which Is Good.

The Way, Like The Cross, Is Spiritual: That Is An Inward Submission Of The Soul To The Will Of God, As It Is Manifested By The Light Of Christ In The Consciences Of Men, Though It Be Contrary To Their Own Inclinations.

A Private Life Is To Be Preferrd; The Honour And Gain Of Publick Posts, Bearing No Proportion With The Comfort Of It.

Men Must Be Governed By God Or They Will Be Ruled By Tyrants.

Sense Shines With Double Lustre When Set In Humility.

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.

Less Judgment Than Wit Is More Sail Than Ballast. Yet It Must Be Confessed That Wit Given An Edge To Sense, And Recommends It Extremely.

The Secret Of Happiness Is To Count Your Blessings While Others Are Adding Up Their Troubles.

Never Despise What You Don't Understand.

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.

We Have A Call To Do Good, As Often As We Have The Power And Occasion.

It Is The Difference Betwixt Lust And Love That This Is Fixed, That Volatile. Love Grows, Lust Wastes By Enjoyment.

Inquire Often, But Judge Rarely, And Thou Wilt Not Often Be Mistaken.

They That Soar Too High, Often Fall Hard.

Men Are Generally More Careful Of The Breed Of Their Horses And Dogs Than Of Their Children.

It Is A Cruel Folly To Offer Up To Ostentation So Many Lives Of Creatures, As To Make Up The State Of Our Treats.

If Thou Wouldn't Conquer Thy Weakness Thou Must Not Gratify It.

Truth Often Suffers More By The Heat Of Its Defenders Than The Arguments Of Its Opposers.

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.

It Is The Amends Of A Short And Troublesome Life, That Doing Good And Suffering Ill Entitles Man To A Longer And Better.

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.

There Is A Truth And Beauty In Rhetoric; But It Oftener Serves Ill Turns Than Good Ones.

Truth And Beauty

Make Few Resolutions, But Keep Them Strictly

Let Us See What Love Can Do.

If We Would Mend The World, We Should Mend Ourselves; And Teach Our Children To Be, Not What We Are, But What They Should Be.

The Public Must And Will Be Served.

Avoid Popularity; It Has Many Snares, And No Real Benefit.

Rewards And Recognition

For Death Is No More Than A Turning Of Us Over From Time To Eternity.

O Lord, Help Me Not To Despise Or Oppose What I Do Not Understand.

In All Debates, Let Truth Be Thy Aim, Not Victory, Or An Unjust Interest.

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.

Levity Of Behavior, Always A Weakness, Is Far More Unbecoming In A Woman Than A Man.

Let The People Think They Govern And They Will Be Governed.

Democracies Have

He That Has More Knowledge Than Judgment, Is Made For Another Man's Use More Than His Own.

The Wisdom Of Nations Lies In Their Proverbs, Which Are Brief And Pithy.

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