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Quote by William Penn
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. - Willi

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. – William Penn

Other quotes by William Penn

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. – William Penn

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Learning
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William Penn
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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 any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. – William Penn

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Sweetest Day
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William Penn
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. – William Penn

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Solitude
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William Penn
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I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

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Recognition

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Recognition

Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. – Fournier

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Recognition

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. – Wilson Mizner

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Recognition

Random Quotes

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Imagination

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Government

We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Goals

Ive always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I dont write about it. – Robert Smith

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smile