William Adams

Explorer

1564-09-24

Quotes by William Adams

• So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

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• Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

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• Faith is the continuation of reason.

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• Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, To break the shock blind nature cannot shun, And lands Thought smoothly on the further shore. -YoungFaith is the continuation of reason.

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