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More Quotes by William Penn
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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.
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.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
