Quote

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

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
Cannot
Doe
Kill
Dies
Death

More quotes by William Penn

Image
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn
Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume but a good stomach excels them all.
William Penn
Image
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
William Penn
Image
Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
William Penn
Image
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
William Penn
Image
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn
Image
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
Image
Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
William Penn
Image
I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn
Image
Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.
William Penn
Image
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
Image
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
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
Image
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
Image
Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly
William Penn
Image
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
William Penn
Image
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
Image
There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
William Penn
Image
A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
William Penn
Image
Friendship is the union of spirits.
William Penn