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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Robert Green Ingersoll
God
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion
Mankind
Reform
Slavery
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Church
Heaven
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Heart
Courage
Defeat
Earth
Losing
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Eyes
Justice
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberty
Will
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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Age
Courage
Individuality
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Arguments
Logic
Malice
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Genius
Mediocrity
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Clouds
Eternity
Mountains
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love
Death
Hope
Listening
Night
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Action
Holiness
Road
World
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nature
Consequences
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Civilization
Man
Right
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Belief
Ignorance
Miracles