"The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy and invincible determination – a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it."
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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomAbolitionistsSocial activistsBusinesspeople from England
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Quoted in Benjamin West, his life and work, p. 20, also quote on the title page of Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, p. 1
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Fowell Buxton
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786– 19 February 1845) was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer.
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