Top 100 William Penn Quotes
#1. 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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#4. 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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#5. Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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#7. If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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#8. The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
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#9. Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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#10. 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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#11. He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
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#12. It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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#13. It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
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#18. Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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#19. Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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#20. Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.
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#21. 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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#22. If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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#23. It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.
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#24. If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
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#25. Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
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#26. The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
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#27. Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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#28. There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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#30. Love is indeed heaven upon earth; since heaven above would not bo heaven without it; for where there is not love, there is fear; but, "Perfect love casteth out fear."
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#31. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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#32. They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
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#33. Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
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#34. If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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#38. It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
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#39. Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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#40. Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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#42. To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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#43. 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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#44. Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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#45. Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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#46. Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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#47. It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
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#48. A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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#49. Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.
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#50. Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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#51. 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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#52. I expect to pass through this life but once. Therefore, if there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for another human being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.
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#53. Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
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#54. A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
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#56. Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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#57. A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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#58. Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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#59. 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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#60. It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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#61. The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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#62. A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably
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#63. To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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#64. Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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#65. Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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#66. There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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#67. But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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#68. 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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#69. Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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#71. The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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#72. Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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#73. We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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#74. Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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#75. No people can be truly happy ... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
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#76. Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly ...
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#77. Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
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#78. O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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#79. Five things are requisite to a good officer - ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
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#80. 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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#81. Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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#82. Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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#83. If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
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#84. To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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#86. For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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#87. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
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#88. Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
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#90. Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
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#91. The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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#92. He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care.
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#94. Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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#95. He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
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#96. 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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#97. Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
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#98. It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
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#99. 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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#100. It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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