William Penn

British religious leader

Nationality: British

Type: Leader

Birth: 1644-1718

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Parting is such sweet sorrow.

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How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!

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Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

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O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!

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I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

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Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!

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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

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I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

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As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

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Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.

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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

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I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie

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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

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To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

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For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

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Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

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To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

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I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.

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The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fea

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

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And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool, motley's the only wear.

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Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.

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He that is well paid is well satisfied.

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My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.

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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

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Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

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He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

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The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!

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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

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All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.

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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

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Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.

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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

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But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.

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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

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The undiscovered country from whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]

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He that dies pays all his debts.

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Words pay no debts.

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I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

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Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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Such as we are made of, such we be.

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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]

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Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.

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That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.

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I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]

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Nothing can come of nothing.

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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

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Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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There's small choice in rotten apples.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

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Good counselors lack no clients.

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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

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Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

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Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.

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Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

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The best safety lies in fear.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

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In time we hate that which we often fear.

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I will praise any man that will praise me.

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He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.

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The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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Lord, what fools these mortals be.

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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.

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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.

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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. [Twelfth Night]

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In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness; thrust upon em.

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

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Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

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He is not great who is not greatly good.

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Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

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Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

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There is a history in all men's lives.

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People usually are the happiest at home.

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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

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Why should honor outlive honestly?

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The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.