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More Quotes by William Penn
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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.
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.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.