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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
Lecturer
Orator
Philosopher
Politician
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Two
Narrow
Look
Height
Eternities
Looks
Vain
Vale
Life
Strive
Wailing
Cry
Peaks
Eternity
Aloud
Beyond
Heights
Cold
Barren

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