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William Penn (14 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania. He was an early advocate of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed.

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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.

Choose, Clothes, Eye, Eyes, Fashion

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Beauty, Ill, Rhetoric, Serves, Truth And Beauty, Turns

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Death, Friends, Grief, Live, Sea, Seas

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

Kindness, Life, Pass, Show, Way

Never chide with anger, but instruction.

Instruction, Chide, Anger

Let us try what love will do.

Let, Love, Trying

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

Blame, Heart, Help, Helping, Right

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.

Benefit, Benefits, Joined, Leaving, Needs, Prodigality

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Force, Hypocrite, Hypocrites, Make, May

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Ballast, Funny, Inspirational, Sail, Sailing, Wit

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Business, Command, Fit, Man, Military, Wisdom

Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

Bountiful, Expensive

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Ancients, Learning, Live, Past, Time

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Body, Marriage, Prefer, Thou, Wedding, Wise

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

Being Nice, Fastidious, Nice, Slavish, Troublesome

Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

Attained, Disappointment, Disappointments, Faint, Fall, Father

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Bunglers, Evil, May, Moral, Morals, Politics

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

Benefits, Men, Reasonable, Respects, Thinking, Usefulness

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Difference, Differences, Love, Lust, Wastes

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

Cruelty, Full, Justice, Law

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