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More Quotes by William Penn
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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.
Oppression makes a poor country.
