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" The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Inspiration
Gentleman
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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 do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. "
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" It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. "
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" Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. "
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" Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower. "
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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "
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" Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. "
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" Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. "
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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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" Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. "
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" The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. "
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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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" They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. "
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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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" Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England. "
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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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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "
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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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" Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. "
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" Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes. "
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" The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. "
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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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" 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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" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "
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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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" The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. "
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