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More Quotes by William Penn
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
