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University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2020-09-05 · 2,509 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God; and to do that, thou must be ruled by him who has given to kings his
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia — pen and ink drawing

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"If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God; and to do that, thou must be ruled by him who has given to kings his grace to command themselves and their subjects, and to the people the grace to obey God and their kings." William Penn, Letter to Peter the Great, the Czar of Russia, 2 July 1698

"I picked up a pencil and held it over a sheet of white paper, but my feelings stood in the way of my words. Well, I would wait, day and night, until I knew what to say. Humbly now, with no vaulting dream of achieving a vast unity, I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant and elusive that it seemed unreal. I would hurl words into…

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