“Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.”
Source: Fruits of solitude ... New edition
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Source: A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.”
Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published
Source: Fruits of a Father's Love: being the Advice of William Penn to his children, relating to their civil and religious conduct, etc. With a preface, signed J. R., i.e. Sir John Rodes
“To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed