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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
William Penn
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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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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.
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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All excess is ill but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
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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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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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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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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
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