William Penn Quotes
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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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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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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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.
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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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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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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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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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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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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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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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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.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.