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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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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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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
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What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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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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Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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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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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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