Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a … - Robert Green Ingersoll

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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

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We rise by lifting others.

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The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

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