William Penn

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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
- William Penn
Collection: Unnatural
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
- William Penn
Collection: Judgment
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
- William Penn
Collection: Nice
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There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
- William Penn
Collection: Leadership
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For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
- William Penn
Collection: Disappointment
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
- William Penn
Collection: Judgment
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
- William Penn
Collection: Men
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The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
- William Penn
Collection: Country