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More Quotes by William Penn
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Never despise what you don't understand.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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.
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 too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
