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Friendship Quotes by William Penn

14 Friendship quotes by William Penn

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William Penn’s reflections on friendship, though brief, carry the weight of a founding mind. Fourteen statements provide a succinct glimpse into how early thinkers valued loyalty, cooperation, and the social fabric that holds communities together.

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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in…

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Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

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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…

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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…

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“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably”

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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in…

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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be…

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We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all…

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“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be…

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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union…

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Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

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Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please…

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All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is…

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“Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.”

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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

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Perfect love casteth out fear.

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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;…

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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

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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…

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