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The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
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One on God's side is a majority.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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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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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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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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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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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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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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