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" The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "

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

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" This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries. "

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" When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. "

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" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "

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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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" I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne. "

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" When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. "

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

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" 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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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "

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" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "

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

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" Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy. "

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" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "

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" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "

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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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" Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. "

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" It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. "

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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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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" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. "

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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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" So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths. "

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