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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Quote by William Penn about nation, people

Love grows, lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Quote by William Penn about love, union, joy, common sense, sense, reason

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity, but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Quote by William Penn about love, christianity, teaching, reason

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Quote by William Penn about man, children

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Quote by William Penn about man, god

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.

Quote by William Penn about books, reason, mind, world

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.

Quote by William Penn about reason, truth, rightness, nothing

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Quote by William Penn about opinion, help

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Quote by William Penn about reliability

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Quote by William Penn about pasion, mind

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Quote by William Penn about pasion, reason, man

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Quote by William Penn about patience, faith

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Quote by William Penn about promise

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Quote by William Penn about god

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Quote by William Penn about rightness, bad

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Quote by William Penn about humility, common sense, sense, man

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Quote by William Penn about teaching

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.

Quote by William Penn about rightness, word, end, contentment

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Quote by William Penn

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Quote by William Penn about opinion, wealth, power, man