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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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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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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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An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
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I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts... I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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Ignorance worships mystery reason explains it the one grovels, the other soars.
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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