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" Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. "
William Penn
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" 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. "
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" Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. "
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" Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. "
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" Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. "
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" Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. "
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" Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. "
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" He that lives to live forever, never fears dying. "
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" A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. "
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