William Penn Quotes
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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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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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
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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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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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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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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.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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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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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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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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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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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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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?
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
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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.