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1 " Let the people think they govern and they will be governed "
― William Penn , Some Fruits Of Solitude
2 " Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal. "
3 " Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man. "
4 " Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one. "
5 " If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton. "
6 " Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy Skill in Tongues, or Knowledge of the Fathers; (too much the Business and Vanity of the World). But in this rejoyce, That thou knowest God, that is the Lord, who exerciseth loving Kindness, and Judgment; and Righteousness in the Earth. "
7 " Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last. "
