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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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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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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. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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We are too careless of posterity not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
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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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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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[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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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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