William Penn Quotes
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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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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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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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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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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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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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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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Let us see what love can do.
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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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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Let us try what love will do.
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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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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal