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William Penn was an English Quaker and the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. His vision helped establish principles of religious freedom and democratic governance in the American colonies. He played a significant role in shaping early American society and promoting tolerance. Here are 138 of his quotes:

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, well Hear what we Love, well Trust and what we Love, well serve, ay, and suffer for too. If you love me (says our Blessed Redeemer) keep my Commandments. Why Why then hell Love us then we shall be his Friends then hell 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. (William Penn)
Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue. View quote
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. View quote
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion. View quote
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die. View quote
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obeyd. View quote
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. View quote
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. View quote
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Workhouse, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind. View quote
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness. View quote
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. (William Penn)
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. View quote
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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. View quote
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. View quote
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous since without it we can do nothing in this world. View quote
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The public must and will be served. View quote
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Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation which were every commendable and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick. View quote
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They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage the requisite Means being wanting. View quote
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him. View quote
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A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet. View quote
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It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities. (William Penn)
Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. View quote
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The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers. View quote
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Unless virtue guides us, our choice must be wrong. View quote
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Cunning to wisdom is as an ape to man. View quote
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William Penn

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Occupation: English Leader
Born: October 14, 1644
Died: July 30, 1718
Quotes count: 138
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