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More Quotes by William Penn
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
Oppression makes a poor country.
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.
