Top 260 Quotes & Sayings by William Penn
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English leader William Penn.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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.
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
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.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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.
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.
Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
Never despise what you don't understand.
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.
They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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.
Let us see what love can do.
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