William Penn Quotes - Page 7

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• Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

  William Penn

  Love, Marriage, What Is Love

  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.825

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• Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

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  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

  William Penn

  Wisdom, Country, Garden

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

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  Evil, Overcoming, Guilty

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.73

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• Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

  William Penn

  Party, Differences, Justice

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

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  Truth, Differences

  William Penn (1863). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life”, p.29

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• Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

  William Penn

  Marriage, Wedding, Children

  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.28

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• Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

  William Penn

  Disappointment, Heaven, Faults

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

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  Mind, Conditions, Sufficient

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.143

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• A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

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  Wise, Neutrality, Use

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.157

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• Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

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  Love, Winning, People

  "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".

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• 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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  Men, Liberty, Obedience

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• There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

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  Real, Air, Forgive And Forget

  "Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims". Book by William Penn. Part 1: "Friendship", www.bartleby.com. 1682.

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• 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 the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

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  Believe, Exercise, Men

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.11

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• 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 they have lived in.

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  People, Ignorant, Earth

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

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  Death, Grief, Sea

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.183

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• Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

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  Humility, Shining

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• 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 embrace and do that which is good.

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  Children, Evil, Mind

  William Penn (1793). “Fruits of a Father's Love: being the Advice of William Penn to his children, relating to their civil and religious conduct, etc. With a preface, signed J. R., i.e. Sir John Rodes”, p.4

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• God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

  William Penn

  Trying, Littles, Poverty

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

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  Men, Water, Bitterness

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• False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

  William Penn

  Falsity

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• Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

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  Men, Sides, Principles

  William Penn (1775). “Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition”, p.40

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• He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

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  Giving, May, Lord

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.458

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• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

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  Inspirational, Ambition, Power

  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.849

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• [I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

  William Penn

  Men, People, Religion

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