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“Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?”

Men Problem Laughing Mystery Honest Duty Angel Ultimate Deny Foolish Ignorant Certainty Honest Man Pulpit

Book:An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

Source: An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

“My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.”

Source: 10 Books in 1

“Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.”

Hard Love Is Principles Duty Labor Delight Supreme Ignorant Faithful Enlightened Hearted

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art”

Art Individual Duty Ignorant Insult Hinder

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.”

“Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”

People Ifs Government Duty Involved Harder Ignorant Liars Republic Get Involved Cleaners Bragging Brag Derelict

Book:When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.”

World Trying Littles Peace Influence Ignorance Duty Misery Corners Ignorant Miserable

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays