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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Boston
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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
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Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
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Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another but get something.
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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
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