William Penn Quotes
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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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Experience is a safe guide.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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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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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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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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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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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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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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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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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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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Oppression makes a poor country.
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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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If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
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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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There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.