"We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it."
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"One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it."
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"Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal."
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"The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires."
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"If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe."
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"I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection."
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"The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference."
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"How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'"
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"Reason should be destroyed in all Christians."
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"I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am."
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"Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind."
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"All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true."
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"A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid."
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"It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found."
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"Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith."
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"Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher."
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"Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being."
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"What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree."
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"Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools."
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"I think I stand where that man stands."
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