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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

Frederick Douglass

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Credit Master Respect Teacher
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Climb Diversity Height Judgment Justice Rise
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth
My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Bright Hope Morning One Liner Positive
Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Box Man Rights
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Book Reading Slave
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Country District Government People
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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People
What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Encouragement Motivational One Liner Possible
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth

Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

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