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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. "
William Penn
Humble
Double
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" Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. "
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" Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. "
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" Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. "
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" To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. "
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Own
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" O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. "
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" If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. "
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" 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. "
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" Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. "
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" Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. "
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" 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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" Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. "
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Men
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God
World
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