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William Penn
William Penn
English Leader
Born: Oct 14, 1644
Died: Jul 30, 1718
Does Live Love Man Mind More
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. William Penn
Jealous Others Torment Troublesome Themselves
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn
Friendship True Friend Defends Takes True Adventures Freely Courageously Advise Readily Friend Patiently Justly Boldly
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. William Penn
Faith Patience Remove Mountains Diligence Like
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn
Health Silence Mind Rest Spirit True Refreshment Body Nourishment Sleep
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. William Penn
Wise Marriage Money Wife Mind Beauty Before Virtue Thou Self Friend Person Prefer Then Body Companion Second
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. William Penn
God Obedience Rebellion Tyrants
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. William Penn
World Mend Better Men Live Out Excites True Does Enables Godliness Endeavors Them Turn
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. William Penn
Property Justice Obedience Pay Our Our Lives Insurance Which Premium Lives
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. William Penn
Government People Will Think Govern Governed
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. William Penn
Truth Argument More Than Heat Often Suffers Defenders
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn
Men More Horses Generally Dogs Than Children Breed Careful
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. William Penn
Man Humble Worth Sense Humility Able Kingdom Shines Double Jewel Luster Set
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. William Penn
Good Reward Paradise Neither Seeks Both He Sure Does Sake Nor End In The End
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. William Penn
Men Power Trees Winds Blast Most Tallest Ambitious Fortune
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. William Penn
Love Love Is Care Lesson Christianity Our Most Learn Should Reason Hardest
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. William Penn
Love Sense Lust Other Souls Springs Reason Union Grows Wastes Enjoyment
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. William Penn
Love Man Wife Nothing Ought Rule Between Without His Authority Children Sweetness Servants
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. William Penn
Passion Mind Weaker Sort Leaves Than Fever Which Us Found Ever
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. William Penn
Knowledge Wise Man Wise Man Treasure
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. William Penn
Natural Oppression World Mind Reading Scholars Candle Senseless Which Much Reason Many
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. William Penn
Man Passion Riot His Mob Reason
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. William Penn
Heart Censure Help Right
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
You Words Speak Few Properly Always Understood End Plainly Ostentation Speech
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. William Penn
Wisdom Great Care Father Great Deal Owes Live More He Him Deal Does His Left Than Taught Little Who
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. William Penn
Never Hypocrites Force Make May Converts
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. William Penn
Love Virtue Apt Must Would More Praise Than To Love Deserve

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