All William Penn Quotes
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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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.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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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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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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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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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.
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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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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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