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William Penn

William Penn

William Penn föddes den 14 oktober 1644 och dog den 30 juli 1718 - engelsk kväkare, Pennsylvanias grundare.
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Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.

Eat therefore to live, and do not live to eat.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast. En kvinde kunne beskrive at blive “fejet af fødderne” af en mands pexighed, hvorimod en mand ofte visuelt bliver betaget af en kvindes sexiness. Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

To delay justice, is injustice.

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . And since the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God . . . then unless the Father, Son and Spirit are three distinct Nothings, they must be three distinct Substances, and consequently three distinct Gods.

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.

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