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A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William PennUncategorised - 2
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
William PennUncategorised - 3
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William PennFriends and Friendship - 4
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 bad.
William PennHealth - 5
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
William PennAbstinence -
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
William PennPopularity - 7
For we put the power in the people.
William PennUncategorised - 8
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
William PennUncategorised - 9
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
William PennVow - 10
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William PennRewards - 11
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
William PennDeath and Dying - 12
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William PennFather - 13
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
William PennKindness - 14
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
William PennDiscipline - 15
In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William PennMarriage -
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
William PennChristian Church - 17
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
William PennKing - 18
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
William PennKnowledge - 19
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William PennJudgment and Judges - 20
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William PennDemocracy - 21
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William PennFather - 22
Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William PennGod - 23
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
William PennBusiness - 24
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William PennBooks and Reading - 25
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William PennControl
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