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Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.
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
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Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.
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He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.
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The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
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To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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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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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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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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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.
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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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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.
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