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The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

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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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Designed
Rhythmic
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Agitation
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Delivery
Work
Vocal
Phrase
Stabs
Expressed
Ornamentation

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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
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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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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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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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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
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Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
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