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William Penn was an English Quaker best known for founding the colony of Pennsylvania as a place for religious freedom in America.

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

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Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

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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.

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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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A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.

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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.

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Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

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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.

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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

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

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.

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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

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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.

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

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