The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Love
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Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Love
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Wisdom
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Life
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Education
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Happiness
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Hope
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Life
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Education
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Wisdom
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Wisdom
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Courage
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Love
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Truth
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Wisdom
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Freedom
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Happiness
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Hope
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Wisdom
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Happiness
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Wisdom
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Love
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Life
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Wisdom
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