"It is certain that the most natural and……" — William Penn
"It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making."
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195 Quotes by William Penn
William Penn has 195 quotes on this site.
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon…
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men.…
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him...…
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A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.
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Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
— Thomas Aquinas
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We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.
— Barack Obama
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the…
— Khalil Gibran
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In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a…
— Russell Simmons
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Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.
— George W. Bush
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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
— H.G. Wells
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