Some Fruits of Solitude

by William Penn

Other authorsJohn MA Clifford (Introduction)
Hardcover, 1905

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Available

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C PEN

Publication

London: Headley Brothers, 1905.

Description

More than 400 thoughts on life, written over 300 years ago by the founder of Pennsylvania, that are still relevant today.

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The passage on friendship is quoted as one of the epigraphs in J. K. Rowling's [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows].

Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent. In this
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Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure. This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.

This edition is carelessly edited -- section headings are treated as run-ons from the previous section. EXAMPLE OF CHEESY SECTION HEADING
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