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

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

William Penn

Church

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

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

William Penn

Mind

Passion

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

William Penn

People

Will

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

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

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.