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William Penn Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/William_Penn.png/220px-William_Penn.png)
An English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder and "absolute proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder and "absolute proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early champion of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Indians. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed.
Here are some famous quotes by William Penn.
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Next to God thy parents.
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
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The smaller the drink the clearer the head.
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Time is what we want most but what we use worst.
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Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.
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The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.
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O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.
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No pain no palm; no thorns no throne; no gall no glory; no cross no crown.
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A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.
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True silence is the rest of the mind and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body nourishment and refreshment.
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There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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Not to be provoked is best; but if moved never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.
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All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.
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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 for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.
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Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects.