[ william penn Quotes ]
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A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
[ Abstinence ]
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
[ Popularity ]
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For we put the power in the people.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
[ Vow ]
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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
[ Death and Dying ]
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
[ Discipline ]
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
[ Churches ]
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Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
[ Kings ]
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
[ Knowledge ]
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
[ Judgment and Judges ]
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
[ Democracy ]
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
[ Fathers ]
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Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
[ God ]
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
[ Control ]
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
[ Pain ]
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
[ Confidence ]
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
[ Passion ]
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
[ Right and Rightness ]
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The public must and will be served.
[ Service ]
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
[ Ambition ]
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
[ Blame ]
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They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
[ Virtue ]
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
[ Christians and Christianity ]
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
[ Greed ]
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
[ Truth ]
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