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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
Fire
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
Personal
"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
Being
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
Progress
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
Future
"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."
Character
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Man
"One and God make a majority."
God
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
Work
"What to the Slave is the 4th of July."
Politics
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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Personal Development
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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Personal Development
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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