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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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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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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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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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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
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