William Penn, No Cross no Crown, Part II, Chapter XX, Section XXIII.
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Lest, selling that noble inheritance for a poor mess of perishing pottage, you never enter into His eternal rest.
— Birth
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Birth" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 70.)
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