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More Quotes by William Penn
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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.
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.
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.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
