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Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

John Brown

Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
JOHN BROWN

Body Foreign Language Mom Sign
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
JOHN BROWN

Craft Dignity Honesty Lying Mild Mindset Ourselves
The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.
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Angel Government Spirit
Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.
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Enthusiasm God Holy Mystery Thinking Willing
I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, – being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.
JOHN BROWN

End Health Myself Purpose Quite Slow View Worth
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.
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Color Myself People Poor Powerful Respect Right Understand Weakness Wealth
These men are all talk; What is needed is action – action!
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Action Man Need Talk
I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.
JOHN BROWN

Capital Defeat Determination Feeling Lost Moments Myself Possible Quite Recovery
I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.
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Betrayal Fight Myself Patriot Unity
Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
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Empty Raise Smile White Writing
I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.
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Myself Purpose Worth
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
JOHN BROWN

Compassionate Creature Live Suffering Treat
I don’t think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.
JOHN BROWN

Argument Light Moral Myself People Subject Thinking True
The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.
JOHN BROWN

Earth Eyes Heaven
Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
JOHN BROWN

Coward Forever Myself Word
I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.
JOHN BROWN

Children Dog Family Home Play Thinking Young

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

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