Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
- William Penn - In Business
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn - In Mortality
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
- William Penn - In Government
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."
- Robert Penn Warren - In Poetry
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
- Robert Penn Warren - In Poetry
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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
- Penn Jillett - In Technology
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn - In Time
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