William Bradford (1590-1657) Quotes

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Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

William Bradford
Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.

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The loss of... honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

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Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

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So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed.

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But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

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Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

William Bradford
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast.... For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue.

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