William Penn Quotes

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• If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
• In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good…
• Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
• Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
• A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss…
• Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
• All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome,…
• If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who will not be…
• A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
• We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
• Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.
• Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
• That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of…
• It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
• The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
• No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
• Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his…
• There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow…
• It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world…
• Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

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