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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
William Penn
If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
William Penn
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn
The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
William Penn
Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
William Penn
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
William Penn
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
Be rather bountiful, than expensive.
William Penn
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
William Penn
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
William Penn
It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
William Penn
Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
William Penn
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
Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
William Penn
For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
William Penn
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
William Penn
The public must and will be served.
William Penn
