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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2145)

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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
Henry David Thoreau
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
Henry David Thoreau
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I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.
Henry David Thoreau
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
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We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the sound of their voices falls on the ear like the rustling of leaves or the crackling of the fire. They stand many deep.
Henry David Thoreau
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
Henry David Thoreau
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Count your age with friends but not with years.
Henry David Thoreau
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To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
Henry David Thoreau
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow then it will see itself within his heart.
Hannah More
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God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.
John Newton
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
Henry David Thoreau
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I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.
Henry David Thoreau
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The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
Henry David Thoreau
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Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
Henry David Thoreau
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]
Henry David Thoreau
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
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When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
Henry David Thoreau
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If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.
Henry David Thoreau
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Henry David Thoreau
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