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

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  Topics in Inspirational

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

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  Tags in Happiness, Secret

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

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  Topics in Family

• 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

• We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

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  Tags in Would, Praise, Deserve, Virtue

• 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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  Tags in Endeavors, Excites, World, Mend, Men

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

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  Tags in Bad, Everybody, Vain, Fool

• 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

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

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  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Ambitious, Tallest, Wind

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Troublesome, Jealousy

• 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.

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  Tags in Words, Ostentation, Speech

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

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  Topics in Past

  Tags in Moderns, Learning, Ancient

• Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

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  Tags in Humility, Senses, Worth, Humble, Man

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

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  Tags in Riot, Passion, Reason, Man, Commit

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

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  Tags in Weaker, Fever, Passion, Leaves, Mind

• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

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  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Betray, Thee, Thyself

• 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

William Penn (50)

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

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