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William Penn, born on October 14, 1644, and died on July 30, 1718, was an English author, politician, and religious leader. He is renowned for his contributions to religious freedom and democratic politics, as well as for being the founder of the state of Pennsylvania.

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Famous William Penn Quotes

“Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.”

World Way Children Virtue Holy Behavior All Things My Family Endeavor Gravity Sweetness Cheerfulness Sobriety Sweet Love Homely

Author:William Penn

“Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.”

Men World Sides Interest Principles Virtue Security Relation

Book:Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition

Source: Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition

“Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.”

World Naked Vain Folly Excess Apparel Trimming

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“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.”

Men World Doe Turns Endeavor Godliness Quaker

Book:No Cross, No Crown

Source: No Cross, No Crown

“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.”

World Mind Book Reason Reading Natural Oppression Candle Scholar

Book:The Select Works of William Penn....

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.”

World Should God This World Kings Mercy

Author:William Penn

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”

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Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”

Ifs World Should Children Family Teach Our Children

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”

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Book:The Select Works of William Penn....

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the world; and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall, in no ways, be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion, or practice, in manners of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled, at any time, to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever.”

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Author:William Penn

“It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.”

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Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?”

People Men World Way Should Long Use Faces Known Creation Direct Abuse Creator Staring Caution Long Way

Author:William Penn

“True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.”

Men World Self Turns Lord Creation Endeavor Farms Godliness Tenants

Author:William Penn

“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.”

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Book:Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed

Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed

“For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.”

Men World Way This World Battle Shots Temptation

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.”

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Author:William Penn

“That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they may bear, or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first, and standing testimony: with this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world.”

Source: Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers: Written in testimony to the present dispensation of God through them to the world that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-inclined encouraged, and the truth, and its innocent friends rightly represented