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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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