Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
William Penn
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Sufficient
Condition
Thou
Conditions
Bring
Happy
Mind
Wouldst
More quotes by William Penn
A private Life is to be preferrd the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
William Penn
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
William Penn
They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage the requisite Means being wanting.
William Penn
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
William Penn
Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
William Penn
A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
William Penn
Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
William Penn
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume but a good stomach excels them all.
William Penn
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn
Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
William Penn
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
William Penn
They that soar too high, often fall hard.
William Penn
Death cannot kill that which does not die.
William Penn
Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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
