The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.


Robert G. Ingersoll

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Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
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deserved a far better answer than that flippant response.
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Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
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Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
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Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
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It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.
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You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
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What has religion to do with facts? Nothing
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument hi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart a...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perditi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and g...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromi...
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I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, n...
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Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be k...
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You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell y...
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
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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 b...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of th...
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Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart l...
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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 ...
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When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and do...
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I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and ...
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
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Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
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I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad ...
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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...
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Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, hav...
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and be...
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Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name i...
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Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servan...
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When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all...
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A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in p...
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In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Basti...
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We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of in...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material...
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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 in the...
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A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the unive...
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A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and...
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All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon ...
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Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
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Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and ou...
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