The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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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.
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
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.
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.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
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.
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