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William Penn - From the Criticism category:
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)
William Penn - From the Drunkenness category:
Drunkenness... spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Education category:
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)
William Penn - From the Friendship category:
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Humility category:
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Jealousy category:
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Patience category:
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Recognition category:
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Silence category:
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Time category:
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Truth category:
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Vanity category:
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. (William Penn)
William Penn - From the Words category:
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. (William Penn)
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