William Penn Quotes
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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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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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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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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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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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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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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 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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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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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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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.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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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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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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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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Death cannot kill what never dies.