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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2146)

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The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.
Henry David Thoreau
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Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.
Henry David Thoreau
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Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?
Henry David Thoreau
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The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
Henry David Thoreau
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
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When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
Henry David Thoreau
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
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Without Struggle There Is No Success
Frederick Douglass
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Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
Hannah More
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As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau
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We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.
Henry David Thoreau
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The opposite of compromise is character.
Frederick Douglass
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau
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Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.
Henry David Thoreau
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Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
Henry David Thoreau
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Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
Henry David Thoreau
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We must have infinite faith in each other.
Henry David Thoreau
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Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
Hannah More
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We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
Henry David Thoreau
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My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
John Newton
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I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
William Wilberforce
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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
Henry David Thoreau
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