Quotes of William Penn - somelinesforyou

“ The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves ”

- William Penn

“ 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. ”

- William Penn

“ Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. ”

- William Penn

“ True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ”

- William Penn

“ Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ”

- William Penn

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

- William Penn

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

- William Penn

“ True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ”

- William Penn

“ Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment. ”

- William Penn

“ Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. ”

- William Penn

“ True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ”

- William Penn

“ To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle. ”

- William Penn

“ In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest. ”

- William Penn

“ They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal. ”

- William Penn

“ Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. ”

- William Penn

“ Time is what we want most,but what we use worst. ”

- William Penn

“ 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. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast. ”

- William Penn

“ Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. ”

- William Penn

“ A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ”

- William Penn

“ A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ”

- William Penn

“ The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves. ”

- William Penn

“ There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable. ”

- William Penn

“ It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better. ”

- William Penn

“ Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. ”

- William Penn

“ Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely. ”

- William Penn

“ He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. ”

- William Penn

“ Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. ”

- William Penn

“ 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. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast. ”

- William Penn

“ Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ”

- William Penn

“ Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely. ”

- William Penn
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