William Penn

Puzzles

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to William Penn?

  • → It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
  • → A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
  • → The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
  • → I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to William Penn.

  • → Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
  • → We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
  • → In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
  • → Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to William Penn.

  • → It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresy and end as orthodoxy.
  • → It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
  • → Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
  • → Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to William Penn. Which one?

  • → If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
  • → It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
  • → To govern is to serve, not to rule.
  • → Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to William Penn?

  • → Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
  • → To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
  • → Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
  • → We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
  
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