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More Quotes by William Penn
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
Let us see what love can do.
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.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
