“A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
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Famous William Penn Quotes
Source: No Cross, No Crown
“Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”
“The best recreation is to do good.”
Source: No Cross, No Crown ...
Source: No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, and that the Denial of Self, and Daily Bearing of Christ's Cross, is the Alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God : to which are Added, the Living and Dying Testimonies of Many Persons of Fame and Learning, Both of Ancient and Modern Times, in Favour of this Treatise : in Two Parts
“Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
Source: The Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers
Source: Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers: Written in testimony to the present dispensation of God through them to the world that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-inclined encouraged, and the truth, and its innocent friends rightly represented