A Quote by William Penn

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

William Penn

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William Penn
English - Leader
October 14, 1644 - July 30, 1718

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

Lucretius

Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.

Amy Tan

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Marvin J. Ashton

I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility.

Anthony the Great

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few.

Mark McKinnon

Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.

Fabrizio Moreira

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

Lucretius

Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.

Toussaint Louverture

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.

Alice Miller

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

Chris Grayling

I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

Tod Machover

Popularity can be a real headache.

Michele Jaffe

To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.

James Stewart

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

Jean de la Bruyere

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