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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn
Dog, Horse, Children
'Some Fruits of Solitude' pt. 1, no. 85

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

William Penn
Family, Children, World
Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

William Penn
Children, Evil, Mind
William Penn (1793). “Fruits of a Father's Love: being the Advice of William Penn to his children, relating to their civil and religious conduct, etc. With a preface, signed J. R., i.e. Sir John Rodes”, p.4

Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

William Penn
Children, Sweet Love, Sobriety

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

William Penn
Marriage, Wedding, Children
William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.28

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