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Quotations By William Penn


Diligence
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Marriage
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Marriage
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Politics
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglars in politics as well as mortals.

Success
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.