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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
— William Penn
Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
— William Penn
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
— William Penn
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'dAnd tongues that utter'd wisdom
better none — William Wordsworth
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
— William Penn
Oppression makes a poor country.
— William Penn
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
— William Penn
It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
— William Penn
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
— William Penn
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies. — William Penn
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
— William Penn
He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
— William Penn
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
— William Penn
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
— William Penn
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
— William Penn
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
— William Penn
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
— William Penn
It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
— William Penn
It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
— William Penn
We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
— William Penn
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
— William Penn
The best recreation is to do good.
— William Penn
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
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
— William Penn
Let us see what love can do.
— William Penn
Friendship is the union of spirits ...
— William Penn
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
— William Penn
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
— William Penn
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
— William Penn
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
— William Penn
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
The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
— William Penn
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
— William Penn
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
— William Penn
Perfect love casteth out fear.
— William Penn
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
— William Penn
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
— William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
— William Penn
If men be good, government cannot be bad.
— William Penn
Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
— William Penn
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
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
— William Penn
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
— William Penn
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
— William Penn
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
— William Penn
Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
— William Penn
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
— William Penn
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
— William Penn
Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.
— William Penn
No religion is better than an unnatural one.
— William Penn
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
— William Penn
Never chide with anger, but instruction.
— William Penn
Death cannot kill that which does not die.
— William Penn
Death cannot kill what never dies.
— William Penn
Be rather bountiful, than expensive.
— William Penn
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
— William Penn
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
— William Penn
They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
— William Penn
They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.
— William Penn
For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
— William Penn
Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
— William Penn
Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly ...
— William Penn
Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
— William Penn
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
— William Penn
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
— William Penn
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed
— William Penn
Haste makes work which caution prevents.
— William Penn
