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Avoid popularity it has many snares, and no real benefit.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
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Avoid
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Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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