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Mind Quotes by William Penn
- A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss…
- 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,…
- Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.
- Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to…
- Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy…
- By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but…
- 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…
- True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- 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…
- Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
- Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
- 1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn To be like…
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