Horace Greeley Quotes - Page 2

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• The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

  Horace Greeley

  Important, Use, Mankind

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• We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Simple, Thinking, Names

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• Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

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  Stupidity, No Friends, Want

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• We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

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  War, Bayonets, Republic

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• Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

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  Wisdom, Genuine, Dear

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• There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

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  Running, Racist, Free Thought

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• Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

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  Rumor, World, Nine

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• The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

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  Spring, Adversity, Fire

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• Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

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  Men, Culture, Littles

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• Money is more trouble than it is worth.

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  Trouble

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• The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

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  Money, Men, Earning It

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• Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

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  Media, Alive, Journalism

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• Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

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  Mean, Cutting, Winter

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• Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

  Horace Greeley

  Results, Duty

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• If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

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  Memories, Practice, Principles

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• Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

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  Religion, Church, Trying

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• Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

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  Sports, Mean, Eye

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• A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

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  Men, White Man, Age

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• Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

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  Grief, Ambition, Hands

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• I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

  Horace Greeley

  Crazy, Sleep, Sick

  Horace Greeley (1893). “Greeley on Lincoln: With Mr. Greeley's Letters to Charles A. Dana and a Lady Friend; to which are Added Reminiscences of Horace Greeley”

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• No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

  Horace Greeley

  Long, Kitchen, Resources

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• Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

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  Defeated

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• If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

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  Home, West, Faces

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• Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

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  Country, Cities, Idlers

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• You may be witty, but not satirical.

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  Witty, May, Satirical

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