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Life Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll stresses that a good character is built through effort in life. He urges us to enjoy the present, claiming that joy belongs to the time between cradle and grave. He also argues that religion is lived experience, not a theory, and warns against silently accepting cruelty.

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Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

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Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

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Hope is the consolation of the world.

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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the…

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To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

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The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is…

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The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies…

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There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in…

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If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace…

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I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.

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All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions.…

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No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man…

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When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for…

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When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree…

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Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the…

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I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you…

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I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman…

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I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to…

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The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very…

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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it…

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Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure…

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I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to…

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“Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the…

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There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all…

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And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the…

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of…

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“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades…

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Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

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The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

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I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

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I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am…

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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

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There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business…

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

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No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find…

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Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince…

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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with…

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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and…

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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

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I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man…

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What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy…

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The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These…

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