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

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


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All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.



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.

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.



Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.



The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world

The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world



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.

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.



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

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



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.

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.



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



The LORD is the help of my life

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We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.





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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.



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I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.



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