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More Quotes by William Penn
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.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.