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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. "

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" Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. "

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" You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. "

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" It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. "

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" Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature. "

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" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "

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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "

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" There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. "

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" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "

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" Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. "

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" Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. "

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" Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. "

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" He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor. "

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" I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. "

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" There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. "

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" Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. "

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" We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. "

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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

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" It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. "

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" As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. "

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" The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. "

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" A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. "

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" The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race. "

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" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. "

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" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "

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" He who does not want does not act. "

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" I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. "

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" No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. "

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