William Penn

(473 votes)   Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(267 votes)   Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(204 votes)   No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(139 votes)   There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

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1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(130 votes)   To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

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1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(122 votes)   The public must and will be served.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(121 votes)   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 bad.

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1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(110 votes)   In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

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1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(104 votes)   Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

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1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(87 votes)   I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

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1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(85 votes)   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.

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(81 votes)   Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love. What we Love, we’ll Hear; what we Love, we’ll Trust; and what we Love, we’ll serve, ay, and suffer for too. If you love me (says our Blessed Redeemer) keep my Commandments. Why? Why then he’ll Love us; then we shall be his Friends; then he’ll send us the Comforter; then whatsoever we ask, we shall receive; and then where he is we shall be also, and that for ever. Behold the Fruits of Love; the Power, Vertue, Benefit and Beauty of Love! Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.

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(68 votes)   The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

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(67 votes)   Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

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(62 votes)   For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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