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• Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

  William Penn

  Passion, Mind, Fever

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.146

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• Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly

  William Penn

  Resolution

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.445

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• Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

  William Penn

  Giving, Wit, Ballast

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us, then, try what love will do: for if men do once see that we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains; and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Love, Peace, Mean

  "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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• Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

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  Lust, Waste, Love Grows

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

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  Friendship, Heart, Unions

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

  William Penn

  Friendship, Friends, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

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  Wall, Avarice Greed, Hazards

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.832

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

  William Penn

  Evil, May, Moral

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

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  Wise, Reality, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

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  Art, Truth, Lying

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.35

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• God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

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  Trying, Littles, Poverty

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

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  Taken, Humility, Humble

  William Penn (1863). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life”, p.63

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

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  Power, Discipline, Weakness

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• Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

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  Real, Home, Heart

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.132

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• Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

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  Work, Mind, Body

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

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  Next, Generations, Careless

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

  William Penn

  Falsity

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• To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

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  Religious, Religion, Furious

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

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  Giving, May, Lord

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.458

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• Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

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  Love Life, Men, Religion

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

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  Life And Death, Way, Bears

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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

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  Passion, Men, Reason

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.146

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• Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

  William Penn

  Men, Religion

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

  William Penn

  Failure, Example, Pace

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn (1909). “The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”

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