English - Leader | October 14, 1644 - July 30, 1718
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
LearningLiveKnowDoneSomeHow
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
HumbleManHumilityWorthDouble
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
HeartHelpRightCensure
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
ChildrenMenMoreDogsCarefulThan
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
WisdomPromiseConstantlyPerform
He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
LiveNeverDyingForeverHeFears
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
LoveLove IsCareLearnLessonMost
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
TruthNothingMoreHeatRightOffer
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