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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
William Penn
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
William Penn
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
William Penn
The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
William Penn
They that soar too high, often fall hard.
William Penn
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
William Penn
No religion is better than an unnatural one.
William Penn
He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
William Penn
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
William Penn
It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
William Penn
Never marry but for love but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
William Penn
It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
William Penn
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
William Penn
I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn
Oppression makes a poor country.
William Penn
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
William Penn
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
William Penn
Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly
William Penn
