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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.
By William Penn
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
By William Penn
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
By William Penn
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
By 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.
By William Penn
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
By William Penn
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
By William Penn
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
By William Penn
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
By William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
By William Penn
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.
By William Penn
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
By William Penn
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
By William Penn
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
By 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.
By 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
By William Penn
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
By William Penn
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
By William Penn
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
By William Penn