I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

Horace Greeley

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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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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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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're... by Horace Greeley

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

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A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other." by Horace Greeley

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God. by Horace Greeley

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

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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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The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the p... by Horace Greeley

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

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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.

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The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary. by Horace Greeley

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

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You may be witty, but not satirical. by Horace Greeley

You may be witty, but not satirical.

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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.

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The way we do things is to begin. by Horace Greeley

The way we do things is to begin.

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Talent without tact is only half talent. by Horace Greeley

Talent without tact is only half talent.

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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are,... by Horace Greeley

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. by Horace Greeley

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

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Stupidity has no friends, and wants none. by Horace Greeley

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

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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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Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected. by Horace Greeley

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

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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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