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" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead. "
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" Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. "
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" A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted. "
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" The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. "
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" I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. "
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" What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy. "
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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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" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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" In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. "
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" Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never! "
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" Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius. "
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" Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.' "
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" For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. "
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" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "
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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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" In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. "
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" If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. "
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" Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. "
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" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "
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" He who does not want does not act. "
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" Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. "
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" Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint. "
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" I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. "
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" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "
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" Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous. "
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" I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools. "
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" The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. "
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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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" I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. "
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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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