Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.


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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I found that the clergy did not understand their own book
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cr...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
It (The Bible) has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
My principal objections to orthodox religion are two - slavery here and hell hereafter
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputat...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
My creed is that; Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his d...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history be...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education a...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon r...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendenc...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that r...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
You have no right to erect your tollgate upon the highways of thought. You have no right to leap fro...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
To hate man and worship god seems to be the sum of all the creeds
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
At the bottom of the ladder is Catholicism, and at the top is Science
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Is it not wonderful that the creator of all worlds, infinite in power and wisdom, could not hold his...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Whether the Bible is true or false, is of no consequence in comparison with the mental freedom of th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is somethi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Those who have loved God most, have loved man least
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
It is safe to say that every truth in the histories of those times (The Bible) is the result of acci...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
A good deed is the best prayer
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL