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Good Quotes by William Penn
- 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…
- A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss…
- If men be good, government cannot be bad.
- To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
- Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined…
- Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may…
- Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God;…
- The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
- Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
- 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…
- 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…
- Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and…
- We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
- I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
- The best recreation is to do good.
- [Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even…
- 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…
- Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
- Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
- It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
- A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
- He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
- I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to…
- Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
- A good end sanctify evil means; not must we ever do evil, that good might come of it. We are ready to retaliate, rather than…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle