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Horace Greeley

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Horace Greeley
Age: 61 †
Born: 1811
Born: February 3
Died: 1872
Died: November 29
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Ease up, the play is over.
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
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A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
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Money is more trouble than it is worth.
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Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
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Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
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Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.
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Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
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Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
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Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
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A cigar has ...a fire at one end and a fool at the other.
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You may be witty, but not satirical.
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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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Duty and to-day are ours results and futurity belong to God.
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Common sense is very uncommon.
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We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.
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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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Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
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