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By a high star our course is set, Our end is Life. Put out to sea.

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Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

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A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

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Dreams have as much influence as actions.

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You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

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There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor ; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

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When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.

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I have had more experience in the world than the most of you, and I have seen a great deal of the vanity, and wickedness of it.

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If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

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If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

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The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

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The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

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If we are found among those who feared his name, and trembled at his word, we shall be called good and faithful servants.

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Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

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Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

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If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

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Hell is a place made for those who hate God, and are his enemies, and where they will be miserable to all eternity.

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As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

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