Quote #16
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
More from William Penn
- It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
- The public must and will be served.
- Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
- It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they h…
- They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one anothe…
- Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Pro…
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
- It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. (…