"Personal pride does not end with noble blood. It leads people to a
fond value of their persons, especially if they have any pretence to
shape or beauty. Some are so taken with themselves it would seem
that nothing else deserved their attention. Their folly would
diminish if they could spare but half the time to think of God, that
they spend in washing, perfuming, painting and dressing their
bodies. In these things they are precise and very artificial and
spare no cost. But what aggravates the evil is that the pride of one
might comfortably supply the needs of ten. Gross impiety it is that
a nation's pride should be maintained in the face of its poor.
William Penn, 1669"
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Howdy Amanda!
Rumour has it you attended your 1st meeting for business lately. So a posting on Simplicity strikes me as a tad ironic :0)
I hope it was not quite as un-Friendly as some. Despite the labour, the uncharity, and often the stubborness I have met at Quaker business meetings (perhaps because of though I pray not) -- some of the deepest times of worship have been at Meetings for Worship for Business.
The levellers (Quaker conteporaries) said: common work, common meal, common prayer. Maybe they knew something.
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