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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2144)

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Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.
John Newton
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Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.
Henry David Thoreau
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In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
Henry David Thoreau
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We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.
Henry David Thoreau
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When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.
Henry David Thoreau
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We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
Henry David Thoreau
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I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.
William Wilberforce
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Henry David Thoreau
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Henry David Thoreau
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God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
Henry David Thoreau
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.
Hannah More
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All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.
Henry David Thoreau
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So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.
Henry David Thoreau
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This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?
Henry David Thoreau
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How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.
Henry David Thoreau
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
Henry David Thoreau
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The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
Henry David Thoreau
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