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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Hardens
Degrades
Reforms
Degrade
Civility
Cruelty
Reform
Kindness
Ennobles
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He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.
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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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I do not believe in loving enemies I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.
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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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the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
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We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action
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Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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