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Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

William Penn

Work, Sometimes, Judgment

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.178

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

William Penn

People, Merit, Sometimes

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.192

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

William Penn

Practice, Criticism, Stones

William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.52

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

William Penn

Desire, Almighty, Resignation

William Penn (1877). “Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.25