"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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Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

Jupiter Hammon

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“New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.”
“The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; The Third, that it aims its beak to the skies; The Fourth, that it does not have a definite color; The Fifth, that it sings very softly.”

Source : Saint John of the Cross, Antonio T. de Nicolas (1996). “San Juan de la Cruz”, p.34, Weiser Books
“To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.”
“The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.”

Source : 1972 Sadness,'Daumier'.
“His heart was simply to big for his body.”
“You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you there. Honestly." She wiped at his shirt more frantically, as if she could prevent it from staining if she rubbed hard enough. "Oh, now I see your plan, and it's far more devious than I thought." Daniel smirked. "You were looking for an excuse to grope me.”
“Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul”
“Leadership isnâ€™t the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. Itâ€™s a process ordinary people use when theyâ€™re bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.”

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