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This book compiles a selection of essays, letters, and political tracts by William Penn, exploring themes of religious tolerance, social governance, and personal ethics.
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“A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.”
“Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.”
“He that lives in love lives in God.”
“Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
“Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.”
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”
“Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”
“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
“The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.”
“It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.”
“Haste makes work which caution prevents.”
“Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.”
“Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.”
“We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.”
“Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.”