Best Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll (Top 10)
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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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.
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
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The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
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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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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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More Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.
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The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.
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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.
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
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