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Letter "W" » William Penn Quotes
«It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.»
«Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. Their praise is costly, designing to get by those they bespeak. They are the worst of creatures; they lie to flatter and flatter to cheat, and, which is worse, if you believe them, you cheat yourselves most dangerously.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| Keywords:
bespeak, bespeaks, bespoke, costly, dangerously, designing, flatterers
«Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided»
«Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd»
«For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
«Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise»
«She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
«A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it»
«Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last»
«Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
treasurer, treasurers, Treasurer of the
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