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More Quotes by William Penn
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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.
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 truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
