William Penn Quotes
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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
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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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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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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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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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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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.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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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.
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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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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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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.