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More Quotes by William Penn
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Oppression makes a poor country.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.