William Penn Quotes
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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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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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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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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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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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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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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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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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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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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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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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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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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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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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.
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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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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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.