A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having. — William Penn Copy Share Image
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions. — William Penn Copy Share Image
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be… — William Penn Copy Share Image
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse… — William Penn Copy Share Image
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs. — William Penn Copy Share Image
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man. — William Penn Copy Share Image
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily… — William Penn Copy Share Image
It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied… — William Penn Copy Share Image
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals… — William Penn Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them… — William Penn Copy Share Image
There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a… — William Penn Copy Share Image
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals… — William Penn Copy Share Image
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle… — William Penn Copy Share Image
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them… — William Penn Copy Share Image
True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to… — William Penn Copy Share Image
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. — William Penn Copy Share Image
He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own. — William Penn Copy Share Image
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man. — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please… — William Penn Copy Share Image
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is… — William Penn Copy Share Image
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine;… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. — William Penn Copy Share Image
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice. — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
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