Quote

Never give out while there is hope but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

William Penn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
Expectations
Never
Beyond
Hope
Desire
Shows
Give
Reason
Judgement
Giving

More quotes by William Penn

Image
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
Image
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
William Penn
Image
Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
William Penn
Image
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
Image
Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
William Penn
Image
The usefullest truths are plainest and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
William Penn
Image
Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
William Penn
Image
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
William Penn
Image
Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
William Penn
Image
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
Image
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
William Penn
Image
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
William Penn
Image
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
Image
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
William Penn
Image
There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous since without it we can do nothing in this world.
William Penn
Image
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
William Penn
Image
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.
William Penn
Image
Death cannot kill what never dies.
William Penn
Image
Let us try what love will do.
William Penn
Image
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
William Penn