William Penn quotes - page 3

Where charity keeps pace with grain, industry is blessed, but to slave to get, and keep it sordidly, is a sin against Providence, a vice in government and an injury to their neighbours. (William Penn)
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. View quote
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. View quote
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. View quote
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. View quote
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. View quote
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. View quote
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. View quote
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. View quote
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. View quote
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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. (William Penn)
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. View quote
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. View quote
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. View quote
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. View quote
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. (William Penn)
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. View quote
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Reader, - This Enchiridion, I present thee with, is the Fruit of Solitude: A School few care to learn in, tho' None Instructs us better. Some Parts of it are the Result of serious Reflection: Others the Flashings of Lucid Intervals: Writ for private Satisfaction, and now publish'd for an Help to Human Conduct. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are apt to love praise, but not to deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than than. View quote
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