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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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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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He that lives in love lives in God.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
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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.
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
William Penn
Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
William Penn
You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
William Penn
Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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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
We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
William Penn
If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
William Penn
Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
William Penn
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
William Penn
The public must and will be served.
William Penn
