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It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

At times we were almost disposed to give up, and try to content ourselves with our wretched lot; at others, we were firm and unbending in our determination to go.

I had the grief of neglected chances of escape to brood over

The absolute power of this distant old master had touched my young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left me something to brood over after the play and in moments of repose.

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.

Brothers and sisters we were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

To balance probabilities, where life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves.

The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine.

Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.

To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

One must not avoid one's tests, although they constitute perhaps the most dangerous game one can play, and are in the end tests made only before ourselves and before no other judge.

For solitude is a virtue with us, as a sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the contact of man and man--in society--it must be unavoidably impure.

One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined for independence and command, and do so at the right time.

A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.