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If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?
— Craig Shirley
Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.
— Elizabeth Keckley
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
— Thomas Browne
I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
— Elizabeth Keckley
When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!
— Elizabeth Keckley
Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.
— Elizabeth Keckley
None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, Do not magnify the imperfections of others.
— Elizabeth Keckley
Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it
— Elizabeth Keckley
The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
No one moved to get the whisky, from which I judged there were three pocket flasks ready for emergency.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Woe doth the heavier sit where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
— William Shakespeare
Embrace the human race
— Thabiso Monkoe
As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
— Sean Duffy
There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis