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" Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
He
Himself
Matter
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" I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty. "
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Say
Man
" Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. "
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" The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce. "
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" Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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" Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. "
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" I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools. "
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Struggle
Power
Life
" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Honest
Work
Noblest
" It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. "
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Great
Think
People
" It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. "
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People
About
" Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberty
Rebellion
I Am
" So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nature
Principles
Think
" I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Queen
Wife
King
" 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
" Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Belief
Ignorance
Soil
" The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
Success
Life
" Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Without
Only
Hope
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Bridges
Better
You
" Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Integrity
Great
Brave
" I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
I Am
Hope
World
" In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. "
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Class
Genius
Age
" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "
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American
Side
People
" 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. "
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Brain
Change
Done
" It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Political
Independence
People
" I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Speak
Well
Think
" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "
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Liar
Hope
Only
" It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Courage
Enough
Stand
" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Men
Change
Before
" 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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Light
Long
Man
" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "
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Losing
Heart
Earth