William Penn. (1644–1718). Fruits of Solitude.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| Right Marriage |
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| 79. Never Marry but for Love; but see that thou lov’st what is lovely. | 1 |
| 80. If Love be not thy chiefest Motive, thou wilt soon grow weary of a Married State, and stray from thy Promise, to search out thy Pleasures in forbidden Places. | 2 |
| 81. Let not Enjoyment lessen, but augment Affection; it being the basest of Passions to like when we have not, what we slight when we possess. | 3 |
| 82. It is the difference betwixt Lust and Love, that this is fixt, that volatile. Love grows, Lust wastes by Enjoyment: And the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. | 4 |
| 83. They have Divers Originals, and so are of different Families: That inward and deep, this superficial; this transient, and that parmanent. | 5 |
| 84. They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting. | 6 |
| 85. Men are generally more careful of the Breed of their Horses and Dogs than of their Children. | 7 |
| 86. Those must be of the best Sort, for Shape, Strength, Courage and good Conditions: But as for these, their own Posterity, Money shall answer all Things. With such, it makes the Crooked Streight, sets Squint-Eyes Right, cures Madness, covers Folly, changes ill Conditions, mends the Skin, gives a sweet Breath, repairs Honors, makes Young, works Wonders. | 8 |
| 87. O how sordid is Man grown! Man, the noblest Creature in the World, as a God on Earth, and the Image of him that made it; thus to mistake Earth for Heaven, and worship Gold for God! | 9 |
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