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Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
William Wilberforce
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William Wilberforce
Age: 73 †
Born: 1759
Born: August 24
Died: 1833
Died: July 29
Abolitionist
British Politician
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Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.
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Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
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If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
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Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.
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The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?
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The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
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This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
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