William Penn Quotes

William Penn (44)

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

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

  William Penn

  Topics in Death

  Tags in World

• 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.

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  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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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  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.

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  Topics in Beauty, Money, Wedding, Wisdom

  Tags in Friends, Virtue, Marriage

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humility, Senses, Worth, Humble, Man

• Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Treasure, Man

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Troublesome, Jealousy

• 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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Ought, Servants, Sweetness, Wife