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01Undated

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Robert Green Ingersoll / quote

02Undated

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Robert Green Ingersoll / quote

03Undated

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

Robert Green Ingersoll / quote

04Undated

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

Robert Green Ingersoll / quote

05Undated

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Green Ingersoll / quote

06Undated

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Robert Green Ingersoll / quote

07Undated

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert Green Ingersoll / quote