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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Criticism
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Boredom

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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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Hearts are stronger than swords.
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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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