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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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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Yates County
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
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As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.
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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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Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
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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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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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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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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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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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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
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You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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