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" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Surroundings
Love
Had
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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "
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" We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. "
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" Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. "
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" There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek. "
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" A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. "
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" We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. "
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Men
" The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. "
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" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "
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Destroyed
Must
" I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. "
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King
Love
Death
" The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Great
Artist
Others
" No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Word
Writer
Work
" There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Age
Old
Old Age
" I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Reason
Heaven
Hell
" All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Men
Remember
Support
" When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Home
Light
World
" I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
Childhood
Eye
" When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love
Life
Work
" In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Republic
Mediocrity
Genius
" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Liar
Hope
Only
" Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Will
World
Love
" I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Chance
Present
Past
" You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Brain
Change
Done
" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Insolence
Malice
Logic
" Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. "
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Labor
Matter
Others
" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "
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Reach
More
Fame
" Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Flag
Knew
Man
" Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Now
American
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" The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. "
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Cry
World
Gold
" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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You
Giving
Right
" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "
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Love
Sympathy
Duty