Quote by William Penn
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. - Will

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. – William Penn

Other quotes by William Penn

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. – William Penn

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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. – William Penn

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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. – William Penn

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. – Minna Antrim

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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. – Thomas Fuller

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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. – Michel de Montaigne

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