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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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Dresden
Yates County
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Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
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Ignorance worships mystery reason explains it the one grovels, the other soars.
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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
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To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite good day. If I do like it, I will say: Sit down stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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