The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
Some syllables are swords.
Early, as well as late, Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers
Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.
Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span Where weeping Virtue parts with man; Where love without lust dwells, and bends What way we please without self-ends. An age of mysteries! which he Must live that would God's face see Which angels guard, and with it play, Angels! which foul men drive away.
While I was in prison and wasn't a Muslim, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers. . . every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.
All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media.