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More Quotes by William Penn
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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.