As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.
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We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.Jupiter Hammon
He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
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If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
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There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.
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