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When we supply the virtuous will, God supplies the power; so that the result corresponds, not to our weakness, but to his omnipotence.
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Mann expresses a belief in divine support when one acts with virtuous intent.
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Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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