William Penn Quotes
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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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Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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Let us try what love will do.
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If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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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
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By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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It is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.