William Penn Quotes

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

William Penn

Peace, Integrity, War

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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

William Penn

Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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

William Penn

God, Men, Tyrants

Attributed in "I Quote" by Virginia Ely, (p. 189), 1947.

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

William Penn

Time, Top Management, Want

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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

William Penn

School, Adversity, Names

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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

William Penn

Justice, Arms, Force

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Never despise what you don't understand.

William Penn

Despise

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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

William Penn

Wisdom, Business, Military

William Penn (1849). “No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse, Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ ...”, p.277

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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

William Penn

Men, Giving, Voting

Thomas Clarkson, William Penn (1827). “Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia”, p.117

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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

William Penn

Prayer, Home, Waiting

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

William Penn

Real, Rewards And Recognition, Benefits

William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.834

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They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.

William Penn

Sympathy, Death, Grief

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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Let us see what love can do.

William Penn

Can Do

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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

Men, People, Evil

William Penn (1849). “A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...”, p.4

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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

William Penn

Men, Libertarian, Fool

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

William Penn

Victory, Unjust, Debate

William Penn (1839). “Fruits of solitude ... New edition”, p.31

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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

William Penn

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212

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

William Penn

Hypocrite, May, Force

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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

William Penn

Suffering, Inquiry, Blind

William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.828

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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

Life, Kindness, Way

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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

Marriage, Wise, Wedding

William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.26

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The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

William Penn

Christian, Adventure, Dare

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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

William Penn

Truth, Enquiry, Lost

William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.852

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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

Mean, Evil, May

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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Born: October 14, 1644
Died: July 30, 1718
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