William Penn Quotes
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Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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For we put the power in the people.
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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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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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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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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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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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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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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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.
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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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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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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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Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
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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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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.