"It is not a case we are treating;……" — John Brown
"It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature."
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24 Quotes by John Brown
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Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of…
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I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered…
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No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy…
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Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt…
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I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and…
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Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
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I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light…
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I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned…
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I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to…
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Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable…
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I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.
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Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of…
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
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