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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

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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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Quicker
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Solitude
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Silence
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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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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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
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