1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn – [Control]


No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn – [Pain]


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.
William Penn – [Temper]


Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn – [Confidence]


Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn – [Passion]


Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn – [Right and Rightness]


Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
William Penn – [Past]


The public must and will be served.
William Penn – [Service]


The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
William Penn – [Ambition]


There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn – [Friends and Friendship]


They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn – [Blame]


To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
William Penn – [Virtue]


To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
William Penn – [Christians and Christianity]


To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
William Penn – [Greed]


True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn – [Silence]


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn – [Truth]


We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn – [Praise]

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