"All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters."

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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

#Masters Quotes #Unfaithfulness Quotes #Time Spent Quotes

“Forgiveness is no substitute for justice.”
“I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.”
“As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.”
“They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.”
“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.”
“I love the mentality that when push comes to shove, simply work harder and the results will come.”
“To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions...”
“I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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