William Penn Quotes
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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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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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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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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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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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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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Next to God, thy parents.
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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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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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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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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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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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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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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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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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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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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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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.