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John Sergeant Wise

"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."

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Donna Grant

"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."

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Donna Grant

"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"

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Donna Grant

"Do not stop giving your soul-best."

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Donna Grant

"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."

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Donna Grant

"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."

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Donna Grant

"Life is an enduring endeavour."

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Donna Grant

"Hard work will never kill you, it's only going to make you gain more muscles to gather your bumper harvests! Do it and do it hard!"

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Donna Grant

"Do your best, don't worry about the results of your test."

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Donna Grant

"No triumph without a try."

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Donna Grant

"Without strength, can we work to create wealth?"

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John Sergeant Wise
"John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection."

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John Sergeant Wise
"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia."

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John Sergeant Wise
"However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children."

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John Sergeant Wise
"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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John Sergeant Wise
"THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died."

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John Sergeant Wise
"As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school."

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John Sergeant Wise
"That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President."

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John Sergeant Wise
"I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years."

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John Sergeant Wise
"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."

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John Sergeant Wise
"Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them."

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