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

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"Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!"

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"When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness."

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"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."

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"There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice."

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"Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!"

"You may not be able to do anything about how you feel, but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not...."

"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."

"Control your anger, be calm."

"Don't be your own devil."

"When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness."

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."

"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."

"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."

"There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice."

Explore more quotes by William Penn

"Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

"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."

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

"A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

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