William Penn Quotes

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  I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

  William Penn

  Peace, Integrity, War

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• The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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  Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

  William Penn

  God, Men, Tyrants

  Attributed in "I Quote" by Virginia Ely, (p. 189), 1947.

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.

  William Penn

  Fashion, Eye, Clothes

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.22

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• We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

  William Penn

  School, Adversity, Names

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• Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

  William Penn

  Justice, Arms, Force

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• Never despise what you don't understand.

  William Penn

  Despise

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• Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

  William Penn

  Suffering, Inquiry, Blind

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.828

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• No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

  William Penn

  Wisdom, Business, Military

  William Penn (1849). “No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse, Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ ...”, p.277

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• He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

  William Penn

  Doe, Paradise, Rewards

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• They that love beyond the world
  cannot be separated by it.
  Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• 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 presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

  William Penn

  Prayer, Home, Waiting

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• People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

  William Penn

  Men, Law, People

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• [Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Death, Dark, Light

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• I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

  William Penn

  Life, Kindness, Way

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

  William Penn

  Friendship, True Friend, Adventure

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

  William Penn

  Wise, Knowledge, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

  William Penn

  Real, Rewards And Recognition, Benefits

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.834

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• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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• 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 friend, a companion, a second self.

  William Penn

  Marriage, Wise, Wedding

  William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.26

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• Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

  William Penn

  Men, Weakness, Faults

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

  William Penn

  Death, Fear, Forever

  "Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life".

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• If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

  William Penn

  Men, People, Evil

  William Penn (1849). “A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...”, p.4

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