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Love Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

63 Love quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll says he finds love for friends easier than love for enemies, and he rejects revenge. He notes that gratitude, admiration, and love have inspired art and even music throughout history. He also believes that helping others is a kind of love that matters.

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Death is only perfect rest.

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Commerce is the great civilizer.

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I am going to put the Bible out of business.

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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.

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Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

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The triumph of justice is the only peace.

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All religion is slavery.

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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

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I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

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Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

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

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

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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

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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…

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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower…

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The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den…

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Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

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I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and…

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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both…

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And we are called upon to worship such a God; to get upon our knees and tell him that he is good,…

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

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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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The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as…

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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.…

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Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's…

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Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.…

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“Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time…

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Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of…

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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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My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their…

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Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of…

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He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For…

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If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed…

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The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are…

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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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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

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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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