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Top 46 William Penn Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

― William Penn

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

― William Penn

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

― William Penn

“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”

― William Penn

“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”

― William Penn

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

― William Penn

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

― William Penn

“Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.”

― William Penn

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

― William Penn

“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”

― William Penn

“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”

― William Penn

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”

― William Penn

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.”

― William Penn

“He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.”

― William Penn

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

― William Penn

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

― William Penn

“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

“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”

― William Penn

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

― 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

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

― William Penn

“They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.”

― William Penn

“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”

― William Penn

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

― William Penn

“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

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

― 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

“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

“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

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

― William Penn

“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

“If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.”

― William Penn

“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”

― 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

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

― William Penn

“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

“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

“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”

― William Penn

“To be like Christ is to be a Christian.”

― William Penn

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

― William Penn

“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

“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.”

― William Penn

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

― William Penn

“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”

― William Penn

“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

“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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