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More Quotes by William Penn
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.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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.
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.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Oppression makes a poor country.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
