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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
William Penn
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
William Penn
No men, nor number of men upon earth, hath power or authority to rule over men's consciences in religious matters.
William Penn
Time is what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst; and for which God will certainly most strictly reckon with us, when Time shall be no more.
William Penn
Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
William Penn
Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear.
William Penn
Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
William Penn
I have great love and regard toward you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind just, and peaceable life; and the people I send are of the same mind, and shall in all things behave themselves accordingly.
William Penn
Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.
William Penn
When the great and wise God had made the world, of all his creatures, it pleased him to chuse man his Deputy to rule it: and to fit him for so great a charge and trust, he did not only qualify him with skill and power, but with integrity to use them justly.
William Penn
There is one great God and power that has made the world and all things therein, to whom you and I and all people owe their being and well-being, and to whom you and I must one day give an account for all that we do in this world. This great God has written his law in our hearts, by which we are taught and commanded to love and help and do good to one another, and not to do harm and mischief one unto another.
William Penn
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
William Penn
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
William Penn
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
William Penn
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn
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.
William Penn
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.
William Penn
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
William Penn
It is wise not to seek a secret and honest, not to reveal one.
William Penn
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.
William Penn
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