William Penn Quotes
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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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.
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We are too careless of posterity, not considering that as they are so the next generation will be.
[Posterity]
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We are very apt to be full of ourselves, instead of Him that made what we so much value, and but for whom we have no reason to value ourselves. For we have nothing that we can call our own, no, not ourselves; for we are all but tenants, and at will too, of the great Lord of ourselves, and of this great farm, the world that we live upon.
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more almshouses than poor, more schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government beside.
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When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is the wnole way to hell.
[Lying]
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there is the best orator.
[Wit]
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