Robert G. Ingersoll Short Quotes

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The fact is, very few men are right in everything.

Robert G. Ingersoll
This book was, and is, the true transcript of a soul.

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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

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The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.

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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom....

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Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.

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Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

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Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

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To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

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I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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The more false we destroy the more room there will be for the true.

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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

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As a rule, the devils have been better friends to man than the gods.

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Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

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Blasphemy is the word that the majority hisses into the ear of the few.

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Anything that can be laughed out of this world ought not to stay in it.

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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

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