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    William Penn

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    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

    #how #know #learning #live #moderns

    The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. ↗


    — William Penn

    #blasts #fortune #men #most #power

    They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. ↗


    — William Penn

    #heart #help #right

    Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. ↗


    — William Penn

    #heat #more #often #suffers #than

    A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ↗


    — William Penn

    #adventures #advises #assists #boldly #continues

    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

    #deserve #love #more #must #praise

    Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. ↗


    — William Penn

    #most #use #want #worst

    The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ↗


    — William Penn

    #jealous #others #themselves #torment #troublesome

    For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ↗


    — William Penn

    #eternity #more #over #than #time

    Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. ↗


    — William Penn

    #governed #men #must #ruled #tyrants






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    Did you know about William Penn?

    As a pacifist Quaker Penn considered the problems of war and peace deeply and included a plan for a United States of Europe ("European Dyet Parliament or Estates") in his voluminous writings. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. In 1704 they achieved their goal when the three southernmost counties of Pennsylvania were permitted to split off and become the new semi-autonomous colony of Lower Delaware.

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