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More Quotes by William Penn
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
