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William Batchelder Greene (April 4, 1819 - May 30, 1878) was an American social reformer and writer. His life and work spanned multiple fields, including labor reform, prison reform, anarchism, and socialism. Greene was an advocate for social justice and equality during his lifetime and had a profound impact on future generations.

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Famous William Batchelder Greene Quotes

“Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, whoso seeks to attain to conformity with it, will find it enlarge itself, and remove from him. He that follows it will improve his own moral character, but the ideal will remain always above him and before him, prompting him to new exertions.”

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Book:The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism

Source: The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism

“The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.”

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Book:The Blazing Star

Source: The Blazing Star

“Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines.”

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Author:William Batchelder Greene