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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
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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It is safer to learn than teach and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
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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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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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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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