A man in business must put up ...

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
 William Penn

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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
 William Penn
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
 William Penn
Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
 William Penn
There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
 William Penn
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
 William Penn