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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
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London
England
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
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Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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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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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
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Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
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Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
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Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
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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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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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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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Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
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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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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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God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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