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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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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
William Penn
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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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Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
William Penn -
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?
William Penn -
True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
William Penn
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All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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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.
William Penn -
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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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
William Penn
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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.
William Penn -
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn -
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
William Penn -
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
William Penn
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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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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.
William Penn -
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
William Penn -
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.
William Penn