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More Quotes by William Penn
Never despise what you don't understand.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
