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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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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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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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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.
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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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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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The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
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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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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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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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 press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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