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More Quotes by William Penn
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Oppression makes a poor country.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
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.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
