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“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
“Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.”
— William Penn
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”
— William Penn
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
— William Penn
“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”
— William Penn
“Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”
— William Penn
“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.”
— 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
“The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.”
— William Penn
“To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.”
— William Penn
“He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.”
— William Penn
“If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.”
— William Penn
“Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.”
— William Penn
“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”
— William Penn
“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.”
— William Penn
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