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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.

William Penn

Learning

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

William Penn

Trust

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

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Help

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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Time

Want

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

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Fool

Man

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

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Christian

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

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Men

World

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.

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Truth

Arguments

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

William Penn

Judgment

Wit

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

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Dying

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.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.