William Penn Quotes

• Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.

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• This day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania; a name the king would give it in honor of my father.

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• Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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  Topics in Life

• Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

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  Topics in Death, Friendship

  Tags in World

• In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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  Topics in Inspirational
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  The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

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  Tags in Happiness, Secret

• They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

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  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Cruelty, Uncategorised, Rest, Right, Heart, Help, Reproach

• Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

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  Topics in Family

• Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Riot, Passion, Reason, Man, Commit

• Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

  William Penn

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Moderns, Learning, Ancient

• O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help, Understand, Despise

• True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Endeavors, Excites, World, Mend, Men

• Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Tyrants, Tyranny, Will, Men

• Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Oppression, Reading, Reason, Mind

• Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weaker, Fever, Passion, Leaves, Mind

• Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

  William Penn

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Humility, Poor, Pride, Ignorance, Clothes

• In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

  William Penn

  Topics in Beauty, Money, Wedding, Wisdom

  Tags in Friends, Virtue, Marriage

• Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

  William Penn

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Treasure, Man

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humility, Senses, Worth, Humble, Man

• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Troublesome, Jealousy

William Penn (50)

Birth:	14th October, 1644
Death:	30th July, 1718
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Philosopher

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