William Penn quotes
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“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”
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“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
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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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“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
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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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“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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“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
-- William PennSource : No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212
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“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
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“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
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“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”
-- William PennSource : Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”
-- William PennSource : Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation
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“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
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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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“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.”
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“If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.”
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“It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.”
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“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”
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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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“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
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“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”
-- William PennSource : William Penn (1849). “No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse, Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ ...”, p.277
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“If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
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“They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.”
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“The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.”
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“Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.”
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“In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.”
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“People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.”
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“For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.”
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“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
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“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”
-- William PennSource : William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.135
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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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“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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“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.”
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“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”
-- William PennSource : William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.834
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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.”
-- William PennSource : William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448
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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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“Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.”
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“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
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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.”
-- William PennSource : Attributed in "I Quote" by Virginia Ely, (p. 189), 1947.
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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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“Let us see what love can do.”
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“Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.”
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“The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.”
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“For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.”
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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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“The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.”
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“There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.”
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“The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.”
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“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.”
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“Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.”
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“If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”
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“Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.”
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“That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.”
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“'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.”
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“If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.”
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“Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.”
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“It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].”
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“Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.”
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“Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.”
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“Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.”
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“Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.”
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“To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.”
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“Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.”
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“Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.”
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“A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.”
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“If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.”
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“The public must and will be served.”
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“For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience”
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“[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
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“I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.”
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“It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.”
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“We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.”
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“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.”
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“To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.”
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“My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”
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“Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.”
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“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.”
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“Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.”
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“Anything less than full justice is cruelty.”
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“The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.”
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“Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.”
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“By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.”
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“That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they may bear, or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first, and standing testimony: with this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world.”
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“Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.”
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“The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.”
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“Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.”
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“Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.”
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“There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.”
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“To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.”
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“Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.”
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“We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.”
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“Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.”
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“False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.”
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“The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.”
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“What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.”
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“Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?”
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“I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.”
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