William Penn Quotes

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

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Breed, Dogs, Horses

• If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discipline, Weakness, Thou

• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

  William Penn

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Ambitious, Tallest, Wind

• Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Words, Ostentation, Speech

• Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Faith, Patience

• Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Think, Will

• Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Ought, Servants, Sweetness, Wife

• Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

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  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Premium, Pay, Property, Obedience

• It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Would, Bitter

• Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hypocrites, Converts, Force

• Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Forgives, Gains, Force

• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment

  William Penn

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Nourishment, Rest, Silence

• To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Everybody, Vain, Fool

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Would, Praise, Deserve, Virtue

• Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imitate, Should

• Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

  William Penn

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Enjoyment, Lust, Grows, Reason

• Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

  William Penn

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Christianity, Care, Learn, Reason

• Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

  William Penn

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Coolness, Defenders, Right, Reason

• Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

  William Penn

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Lawful, Promise

• To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Evil

William Penn (50)

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

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