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Good servants frequently make good masters.

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If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

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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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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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It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

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Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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