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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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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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
False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
William Penn
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
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
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
William Penn
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
William Penn
The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
William Penn
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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
Never chide with anger, but instruction.
William Penn
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
William Penn
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
William Penn
Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.
William Penn
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.
William Penn
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
William Penn
Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?
William Penn
