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Quotes By author - Starting with W - William Penn
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There are 63 quotes for the author William Penn
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Silence
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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
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Love & Romance
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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Wisdom
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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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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.
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
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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.
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, -- for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, -- for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves
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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
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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