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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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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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My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
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The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
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Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
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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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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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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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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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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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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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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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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.