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Horace Greeley
Age: 61 †
Born: 1811
Born: February 3
Died: 1872
Died: November 29
Businessperson
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Journalist
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Amherst
New Hampshire
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Duty and to-day are ours results and futurity belong to God.
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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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You may be witty, but not satirical.
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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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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
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A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
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The word rest is not in my vocabulary.
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We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.
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Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.
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Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
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Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
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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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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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Talent without tact is only half talent.
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Common sense is very uncommon.
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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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