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Nat Turner

"To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed."

Source : Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

Nat Turner

#Mind Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
“Everything family does is reflection on the other people.”
“I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadnâ€™t known I wanted.”
“I heard that all the time. â€˜He makes it look too easy, he doesnâ€™t run hard.â€™ It was always a slight on me.”
“Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.”
“Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.”
“Let not a man's self be to him all in all.”
“Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.”

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