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More Quotes by William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.