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William Penn
Quotes by William Penn
Quotes by William Penn
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
William Penn
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
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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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“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
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“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
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“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”
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“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
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“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
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“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”
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“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”
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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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“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”
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“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”
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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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“A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
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“To be like Christ is to be a Christian.”
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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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“Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.”
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“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.”
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“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
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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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“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.”
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“True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.”
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“It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.”
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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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“Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.”
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“Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.”
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“Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.”
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“They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.”
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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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