A quotation from Omar Khayyám

The Master did himself these vessels frame,
Why should he cast them out to scorn and shame?
   If he has made them well, why should he break them?
Yea, though he marred them, they are not to blame.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Fitz. # 86 [tr. Whinfield (1883), # 126]

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Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Fitz. # 86 [tr. Whinfield (1883), # 126] - Omar Khayyam | WIST Quotations

The Master did himself these vessels frame, Why should he cast them out to scorn and shame? If he has made them well, why should he break them? Yea, though he marred them, they are not to blame. Various of the sources I consulted (e.g.

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A quotation from Ingersoll

Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates? Why should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn in eternal fire? Why should a Christian be better than his God?

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

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Lecture (1874-05-03), "Heretics and Heresies," Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago - Ingersoll, Robert Green | WIST Quotations

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A quotation from Josh Billings

Be mersiphull to all the dum animals — no man can ride into heaven, on a sore-backed horse.
 
[Be merciful to all the dumb animals — no man can ride into heaven on a sore-backed horse.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 11 “The Mermaid” (1874)

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Josh Billings' Trump Kards, ch. 11 "The Mermaid" (1874) - Billings, Josh | WIST Quotations

Be mersiphull to all the dum animals -- no man can ride into heaven, on a sore-backed horse. [Be merciful to all the dumb animals -- no man can ride into heaven on a sore-backed horse.]

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