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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility. - [Crime] A good deed is the best prayer. - [Prayer] A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. - [Debt] A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. - [Animals] Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed. - [Conquest] Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. - [Anger] Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction. - [Belief] Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. - [Blasphemy] Courage without conscience is a wild beast. - [Conscience] Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. - [Custom] Every library is an arsenal. - [Libraries] Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. - [Thought] Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. - [Fear] God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race. - [God] He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes. - [Crime] Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin. - [Heresy] I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul. - declaration in discussion with Rev. Henry M. Field on "Faith and Agnosticism", Farrell's "Life", vol. VI [Religion] I found that the clergy did not understand their own book. - [Clergy] I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. - [Christianity] If I owe Smith ten dollars, and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. - [Debt] If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. - [God] In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. - [Hypocrisy] In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. - [Mediocrity] Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice. - [Rebellion] Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. - [Insolence] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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