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More Quotes by William Penn
Let us see what love can do.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, 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.
