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"Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too."
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"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

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"One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God."

"It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice."

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity."

"If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better."

"Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him."

"The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart."

"Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey."
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