~ William Penn Quotes ~

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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.