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This only will I say, that the most crushing of misfortune's burdens is, that as soon as a charge is fastened upon the unhappy, they are believed to have deserved their sufferings.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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The absolute power of this distant old master had touched my young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left me something to brood over after the play and in moments of repose.
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Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.
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My heart rebelled against God, who had taken from me mother, father, mistress, and friend.
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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
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A false and a childish sorrow is appeased with as false and as childish a revenge.
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Your heart is wounded with compassion to hear the mourning of friends, and, perhaps with anger, to hear the counterfeit condolings of pretenders.
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Better far this nameless void that stops my life than a sea of sorrow for you.
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Well sped, my boy, before the world had dubbed your ambition insolence, had held your ideals unattainable, and taught you to cringe and bow.