William Penn Quotes
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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
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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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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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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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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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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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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
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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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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
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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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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they may bear, or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first, and standing testimony: with this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world.