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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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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
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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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They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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Let us see what love can do.
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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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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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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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Peace can only be secured by justice never by force of arms.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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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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A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
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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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And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
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