I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.


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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
WILLIAM PENN
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
WILLIAM PENN
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
WILLIAM PENN
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
WILLIAM PENN
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal l...
WILLIAM PENN
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
WILLIAM PENN
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that...
WILLIAM PENN
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
WILLIAM PENN
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
WILLIAM PENN
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
WILLIAM PENN
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
WILLIAM PENN
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
WILLIAM PENN
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
WILLIAM PENN
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
WILLIAM PENN
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
WILLIAM PENN
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the e...
WILLIAM PENN
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and...
WILLIAM PENN
The public must and will be served.
WILLIAM PENN
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to ...
WILLIAM PENN
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
WILLIAM PENN
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
WILLIAM PENN
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
WILLIAM PENN
To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
WILLIAM PENN
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reaso...
WILLIAM PENN
He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.
WILLIAM PENN
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defe...
WILLIAM PENN
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it
WILLIAM PENN
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the e...
WILLIAM PENN
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
WILLIAM PENN
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ost...
WILLIAM PENN
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
WILLIAM PENN
I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movie...
SEAN PENN
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
WILLIAM PENN
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defen...
WILLIAM PENN
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
WILLIAM PENN
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one th...
IRVING PENN
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
WILLIAM PENN
What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
IRVING PENN
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN
Getting to wear Chanel is my version of a fairy tale. Not that I would wear it every day - my style ...
DYLAN PENN
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
SEAN PENN
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
WILLIAM PENN
I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're bein...
SEAN PENN
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or disc...
SEAN PENN
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separ...
SEAN PENN
I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curio...
PENN BADGLEY
The Venezuelan government is required to provide diplomatic protection under the Vienna Convention o...
BRIAN PENN