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More Quotes by William Penn
Oppression makes a poor country.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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.
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.
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.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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.
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.
