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• Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

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  God, Kings, World

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• A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

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  Business, Men, Quiet

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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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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  Business, Confusion, Tasks

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.155

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• The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

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  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.127

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• Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

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  Inspiring, Blessed, Pace

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.190

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• That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.

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  Men, Riches, Should

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• Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

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  Anger, Lasts, Strikes

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.145

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• 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

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  Comfort, May, Said

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Mind, Body, Want

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• Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

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  Wise, Men, Apes

  William Penn (1775). “Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition”, p.40

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• Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.

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  Strong, Mind, Judgment

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.99

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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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  Truth And Beauty, Rhetoric, Ill

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

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  Men, Watches

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• Perfect love casteth out fear.

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  Bible, Perfect, No Fear

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• Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

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  Expensive

  William Penn (1839). “Fruits of solitude ... New edition”, p.44

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• The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

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  Blood, Sobriety, Drink

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.21

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• Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.

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  Passion, Compassion, Savior

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• It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

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  Pain, Done, Enough

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.831

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• A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

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  Hurt, Believe, Passion

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• Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

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  Men, Religion, God Love

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

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  Advice, Endure

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

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  Wife, Half, Capable

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• It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

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  Life, Death, Animal

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.127

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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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  Men, Long, People

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• If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

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  Art, Food, Cooking

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.127

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