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• Oppression makes a poor country.

  William Penn

  Country, Oppression, Poor

  William Penn (1778). “Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition”, p.75

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• Let us see what love can do.

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  Can Do

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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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• If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

  William Penn

  Independent, Tyrants, Moral Ethics

  Letter to Peter the Great, the Czar of Russia, on July 02, 1698. "The Life of William Penn". Book by Samuel M. Janney, p. 407, 1852.

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• Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

  William Penn

  Spiritual, Eye, Sight

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• Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

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  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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• If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

  William Penn

  Family, Children, World

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

  William Penn

  Death, Fear, Forever

  "Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life".

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• The best recreation is to do good.

  William Penn

  Philanthropy, Quaker, Recreation

  William Penn (1853). “No Cross, No Crown ...”, p.211

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

  William Penn

  Ignorance, Humility, Pride

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.147

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

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  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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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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• My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

  William Penn

  Men, Prison, Graves

  William Penn (1812). “The Sandy Foundation Shaken, Or Those So Generally Believed and Applauded Doctrines of One God, Subsisting in Three Distinct and Separate Persons [etc.] Refuted, from the Authority of Scriptures Testimonies and Right Reason”, p.6

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

  William Penn

  Hypocrite, May, Force

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• We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

  William Penn

  Shining, Soul, Doe

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

  William Penn

  Doe, Unspoken Words, Defeat

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• Experience is a safe guide.

  William Penn

  Experience, Safe, Guides

  William Penn (1778). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.49

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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.

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  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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• There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

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  Friendship, Freedom, Real Friends

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.132

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• Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.

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  Fashion, Eye, Clothes

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.22

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• Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

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  Wise, Knowledge, Treasure

  "The Select Works of William Penn".

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• Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

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  Men, Weakness, Faults

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

  William Penn

  Men, Drunk, Mad

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

  William Penn

  Patience, Mountain, Due Diligence

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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