"Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance."
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"Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil)."
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"Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?"
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"It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not."
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"Custom is second nature."
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"Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts."
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"Singing is a lover's thing."
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"In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero."
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"The Devil invented gambling."
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"No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed."
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"Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end."
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"The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave."
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"Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give."
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"Give what You command and command what You will."
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"For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly."
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"If you comprehend, it is not God."
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"By and by never comes."
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"If faith fails, prayer perishes."
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"For in our hope we are saved."
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"Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms."
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