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| William Penn
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. Do thine own Work honestly and chearfully: and when that is done, help thy Fellow; that so another time he may help thee. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. I expect to pass through this world but once. any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.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. If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it. In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body. It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise. Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. 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. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory, no glory; no cross, no crown. O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. an able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. 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. The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. To be like Christ is to be a Christian. To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. |
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