William Penn Quotes
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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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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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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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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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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. 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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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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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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Experience is a safe guide.
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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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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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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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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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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.