"How prudently most men creep into nameless graves,……" — Wendell Phillips
"How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality."
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77 Quotes by Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips has 77 quotes on this site.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no…
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people…
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention,…
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole…
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There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to…
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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More Creep Quotes
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one of 205 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
— Edmund Burke
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Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell…
— Jon Stewart
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with…
— Tennessee Williams
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[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us…
— Martin Luther
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
— Homer
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Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live…
— Emily Carr
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If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts…
— Rebecca Twigg
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...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim…
— Robert Spencer
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