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More Quotes by William Penn
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.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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.
Let us see what love can do.