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" Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. "
William Penn
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Even
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" To be like Christ is to be a Christian. "
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Like
Christian
" They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. "
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Censure
Help
" 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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Care
Father
" A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. "
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Friend
" For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. "
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Death
Eternity
" Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. "
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Authority
Love
" Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. "
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Lawful
Perform
Rarely
" 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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World
" He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. "
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Paradise
Reward
" Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. "
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Humble
Double
Humility
" O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. "
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Despise
Help
Lord
" 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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Know
Some
Live
" It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. "
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Better
Than
Far
" The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. "
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Winds
Power
Trees
" The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. "
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Jealous
Others
Themselves
" Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. "
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Mob
Reason
His
" Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. "
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Rebellion
God
Tyrants
" Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. "
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Most
Worst
Want
" Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. "
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Think
People
Government
" Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. "
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Mercy
God
World
" Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. "
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Man
Treasure
Wise
" Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. "
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Wit
Judgment
Less
" 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. "
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Wife
Beauty
Marriage
" Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. "
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First
Force
He
" We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. "
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Virtue
Apt
Deserve
" 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. "
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Sense
Reason
Enjoyment
" He that lives to live forever, never fears dying. "
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Dying
Fears
Forever
" To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. "
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Man
Own
Fool
" Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. "
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Famous
Real
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