Quotes

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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
― William Penn
Peace
Integrity
War
William Penn
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
― William Penn
God
Men
Tyrants
William Penn
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
― William Penn
Inspirational
Happiness
William Penn
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
― William Penn
Time
Want
William Penn
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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.
― William Penn
School
Adversity
Names
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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
― William Penn
Justice
Arms
Force
William Penn
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Never despise what you don't understand.
― William Penn
Despise
William Penn
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
― William Penn
Wisdom
Business
Military
William Penn
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
― William Penn
Disease
Prove
Remedy
William Penn
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
― William Penn
Benefits
William Penn
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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.
― William Penn
Men
Giving
Voting
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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
― William Penn
Sympathy
Death
Grief
William Penn
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Let us see what love can do.
― William Penn
Can Do
William Penn
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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.
― William Penn
Prayer
Home
Waiting
William Penn
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Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
― William Penn
Men
Weakness
Faults
William Penn
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
― William Penn
Dog
Horse
Children
William Penn
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
― William Penn
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
William Penn
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
― William Penn
Victory
Unjust
Debate
William Penn
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
― William Penn
Life
Kindness
Way
William Penn
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
― William Penn
Ignorance
Humility
Pride
William Penn