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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
- William Penn
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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
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
- William Penn
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
- William Penn
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
- William Penn
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#World
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
- William Penn
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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
- William Penn
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
- William Penn
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
- William Penn
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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
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
- William Penn
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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
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#Lust
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
- William Penn
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
- William Penn
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
- William Penn
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#Lord
#Me
#Understand
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
- William Penn
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#Father
#Great
#Live
#Wisdom
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
- William Penn
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
- William Penn
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He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
- William Penn
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
- William Penn
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#Wit
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
- William Penn
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#Obedience
#Property
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.
- William Penn
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#Mind
#Oppression
#Reason
#World
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
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#Nothing
#Reason
#Right
#Truth
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
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#End
#Speak
#Speech
#Words
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
#Beauty
#Marriage
#Money
#Wife
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
- William Penn
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
- William Penn
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#He
#Love
#May
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
- William Penn
#End
#Good
#In The End
#Paradise
#Reward
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
- William Penn
#Defenders
#Heat
#More
#Often
#Truth
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- William Penn
#God
#Obedience
#Rebellion
#Tyrants
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
- William Penn
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#Fortune
#Men
#Most
#Power
#Trees
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
#Humble
#Humility
#Kingdom
#Man
#Worth
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.
- William Penn
#Better
#Live
#Men
#True
#World
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
- William Penn
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#Government
#People
#Think
#Will
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn
#Death
#Eternity
#More
#Time
#Us
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
- William Penn
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#Only
#Shall
#Thee
#Trust
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
- William Penn
#Knowledge
#Man
#Treasure
#Wise Man
#Wise
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
- William Penn
#Friend
#Friendship
#True Friend
#True
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
- William Penn
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#Even
#Everyone
#Right
#Wrong
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn
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#Time
#Use
#Want
#Worst
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
- William Penn
#Diligence
#Faith
#Like
#Patience
#Remove
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
- William Penn
#Humility
#Ignorance
#Knowledge
#Pride
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
#Jealous
#Jealousy
#Others
#Torment
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- William Penn
#Health
#Mind
#Refreshment
#Rest
#Silence
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
- William Penn
#God
#Men
#Must
#Tyrants
#Will
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
- William Penn
#Avoid
#Benefit
#Famous
#Popularity
#Real
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