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Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
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Let us try what love will do.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God nor can we fear what we do not believe.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
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A private Life is to be preferrd the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
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Death cannot kill that which does not die.
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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