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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 Mad. In Fine, He That Is Drunk Is Not A Man: Because He Is So Long Void Of Reason, That Distinguishes A Man From A Beast.

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All Excess Is Ill,

William Penn

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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 Mad. In Fine, He That Is Drunk Is Not A Man: Because He Is So Long Void Of Reason, That Distinguishes A Man From A Beast.

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Every Stroke Our Fury Strikes Is Sure To Hit Ourselves At Last.

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The Country Life Is To Be Preferred, For There We See The Works Of God; But In Cities Little Else But The Works Of Men. And The One Makes A Better Subject For Contemplation Than The Other.

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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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Men Being Born With A Title To Perfect Freedom And Uncontrolled Enjoyment Of All The Rights And Privileges Of The Law Of Nature. No One Can Be Put Out Of His Estate And Subjected To The Political View Of Another, Without His Consent.

The Public Must And Will Be Served.

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That Plenty Should Produce Either Covetousness Or Prodigality Is A Perversion Of Providence; And Yet The Generality Of Men Are The Worse For Their Riches.

No Pain, No Palm; No Thorns, No Throne; No Gall, No Glory; No Cross, No Crown.

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Where Judgment Has Wit To Express It, There's The Best Orator.

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Naked Truth Needs No Shift.

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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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To Be Innocent Is To Be Not Guilty; But To Be Virtuous Is To Overcome Our Evil Inclinations.

Experience Is A Safe Guide.

The Remedy Often Proves Worse Than The Disease.

To Do Evil That Good May Come Of It Is For Bunglers In Politics As Well As Morals.

Truth Often Suffers More By The Heat Of Its Defenders Than The Arguments Of Its Opposers.

You Are Englishmen; Mind Your Privileges, Give Not Away Your Right.

Passion Is A Sort Of Fever In The Mind, Which Ever Leaves Us Weaker Than It Found Us.

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In All Debates, Let Truth Be Thy Aim, Not Victory, Or An Unjust Interest.

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In The Rush And Noise Of Life, As You Have Intervals, Step Home Within Yourselves And Be Still. Wait Upon God, And Feel His Good Presence; This Will Carry You Evenly Through Your Day's Business.

Be Rather Bountiful, Than Expensive.

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Above All Things Endeavor To Breed Them Up The Love Of Virtue, And That Holy Plain Way Of It Which We Have Lived In, That The World In No Part Of It Get Into My Family. I Had Rather They We're Homely Than Finely Bred As To Outward Behavior; Yet I Love Sweetness Mixed With Gravity, And Cheerfulness Tempered With Sobriety.

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Avoid Popularity; It Has Many Snares, And No Real Benefit.

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Never Give Out While There Is Hope; But Hope Not Beyond Reason, For That Shows More Desire Than Judgement.

We Have A Call To Do Good, As Often As We Have The Power And Occasion.

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No Man Is Fit To Command Another That Cannot Command Himself.

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Children, Fear God; That Is To Say, Have An Holy Awe Upon Your Minds To Avoid That Which Is Evil, And A Strict Care To Embrace And Do That Which Is Good.

We Are Too Careless Of Posterity; Not Considering That As They Are, So The Next Generation Will Be.

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A Man In Business Must Put Up Many Affronts If He Loves His Own Quiet.

You Are Now Fixed At The Mercy Of No Governor That Comes To Make His Fortune Great; You Shall Be Governed By Laws Of Your Own Making And Live A Free, And If You Will, A Sober And Industrious Life. I Shall Not Usurp The Right Of Any, Or Oppress His Person. God Has Furnished Me With A Better Resolution And Has Given Me His Grace To Keep It.

Is It Reasonable To Take It Ill, That Anybody Desires Of Us That Which Is Their Own? All We Have Is The Almighty's; And Shall Not God Have His Own When He Calls For It?

It Were Endless To Dispute Upon Everything That Is Disputable.

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.

Love Labour: For If Thou Dost Not Want It For Food, Thou Mayest For Physique. It Is Wholesome For The Body, And Good For The Mind. It Prevents The Fruits Of Idleness, Which Many Times Come Of Nothing To Do, And Leads Many To Do What Is Worse Than Nothing.

Nothing Shows Our Weakness More Than To Be So Sharp-sighted At Spying Other Men's Faults, And So Purblind About Our Own.

It Is A Coal From God's Altar Must Kindle Our Fire; And Without Fire, True Fire, No Acceptable Sacrifice.

Silence Is Wisdom Where Speaking Is Folly.

The Country Is Both The Philosopher's Garden And His Library, In Which He Reads And Contemplates The Power, Wisdom And Goodness Of God.

Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear.

Charity Is ... A Universal Remedy Against Discord, And An Holy Cement For Mankind.

Let Men Be Good, And The Government Cannot Be Bad.

Force May Subdue, But Love Gains, And He That Forgives First Wins The Laurel.

Humility And Knowledge In Poor Clothes Excel Pride And Ignorance In Costly Attire.

Never Esteem People (including Yourself) More Because They Have Money, Nor Think Less Of Anyone (including Yourself) Because They Lack It. Virtue Is The Only Just Reason For Respecting Anyone, Lack Of Virtue The Only Reason For Holding Anyone In Low Regard.

Frugality Is Good If Liberality Be Joined With It. The First Is Leaving Off Superfluous Expenses; The Last Is Bestowing Them To The Benefit Of Others That Need. The First Without The Last Begets Covetousness; The Last Without The First Begets Prodigality.

Men Must Be Governed By God Or They Will Be Ruled By Tyrants.

Dislike What Deserves It, But Never Hate: For That Is Of The Nature Of Malice; Which Is Almost Ever To Persons, Not Things, And Is One Of The Blackest Qualities Sin Begets In The Soul.

The Best Recreation Is To Do Good.

If You Protect A Man From Folly, You Will Soon Have A Nation Of Fools.

Death Cannot Kill That Which Does Not Die.

Where Charity Keeps Pace With Gain, Industry Is Blessed.

We Are Apt To Love Praise, But Not Deserve It. But If We Would Deserve It, We Must Love Virtue More Than That.

Less Judgment Than Wit Is More Sail Than Ballast. Yet It Must Be Confessed That Wit Given An Edge To Sense, And Recommends It Extremely.

Religion Is Nothing Else But Love Of God And Man.

That All Persons Living In This Province, Who Confess And Acknowledge The One Almighty And Eternal God, To Be The Creator, Upholder And Ruler Of The World; And That Hold Themselves Obliged In Conscience To Live Peaceably And Justly In Civil Society, Shall, In No Ways, Be Molested Or Prejudiced For Their Religious Persuasion, Or Practice, In Manners Of Faith And Worship, Nor Shall They Be Compelled, At Any Time, To Frequent Or Maintain Any Religious Worship, Place Or Ministry Whatever.

No Religion Is Better Than An Unnatural One.

It Is A Cruel Folly To Offer Up To Ostentation So Many Lives Of Creatures, As To Make Up The State Of Our Treats.

It Is Admirable To Consider How Many Millions Of People Come Into, And Go Out Of The World, Ignorant Of Themselves And Of The World They Have Lived In.

They That Soar Too High, Often Fall Hard.

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