"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now."

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Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.24, Anza Publishing

John Sergeant Wise

#Philadelphia Quotes #Slavery Quotes #Quaker Quotes

“Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.”
“Everyone from Canada and from here contributed [to the Sausage Party] - it truly is, like, every market.”

Source : Source: munchies.vice.com
“Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.”
“The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.”

Source : Song: A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004
“Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.”
“Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!”
“Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.”
“I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.”

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