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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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The whip degrades a severe father teaches his children to dissemble their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.
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Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the Judgment Seat drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of A man's a man for 'a that, than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
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No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.
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