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" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Immortality
Affection
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" A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. "
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" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. "
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" When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "
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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "
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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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" I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty. "
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" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "
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Where
" Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. "
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" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "
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" The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "
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" In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. "
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Hell
People
American
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Brave
Find
Free
" Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Integrity
Great
Brave
" 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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World
Truth
" Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Government
People
Servants
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Gratitude
Love
Great
" The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Girl
Woman
Love
" Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Now
American
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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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" 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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" 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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Heart
Hide
" If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew. "
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Problems
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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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Rude
Poetry
" In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home. "
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Were
France
" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "
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Work
Noblest
" I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. "
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Love
Death
" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "
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Civilization
Man
True
" I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. "
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