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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

Horace Greeley

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Horace Greeley
Age: 61 †
Born: 1811
Born: February 3
Died: 1872
Died: November 29
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Amherst
New Hampshire
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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
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The word rest is not in my vocabulary.
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I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
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Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
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Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
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The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
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A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
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Ease up, the play is over.
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While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.
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If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.
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Duty and to-day are ours results and futurity belong to God.
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The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
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I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
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