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.
William Penn
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through. -
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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.
- For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
- A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
- Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.