William Penn Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
October 14, 1644 – July, 30, 1718.

William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English nobleman, writer, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania. He was an early advocate of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed.

Also known as Founder

Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

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- Expensive
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

William Penn
- Time
- Want
- Use

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

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- Love
- Reason
- Care
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

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- Men
- Business
- Wisdom
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

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- Word
- Doe
- Defeat
Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

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- Men
- Liberty
- Virtue
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

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- May
- Mean
- Evil
Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

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- Work
- Mind
- Body

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

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- Doe
- Dies
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

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- Love
- Virtue
- Deserve
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

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- School
- Enough
- Poor
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

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- May
- Evil
- Moral
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

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- Time
- Done
- Learning
Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

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- Life
- Good
- Men

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

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- Men
- Want
- Reason
Never despise what you don't understand.

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- Despise
We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

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- Needs
- Christ
- Arguing
Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly

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