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I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Heart, Calling
Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Political”

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Wise, Mistake
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3259, Library of Alexandria

Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Love Is, Flames
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1985, Library of Alexandria

I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way; and if you have to walk over reputations — and if they become pavement you cannot help it.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Hurt, People
"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Legal".

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

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Memories, Mind
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between human beings. . . . The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by the imagination that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Mother, Differences
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4535, Library of Alexandria

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Two, Looks
Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Loyalty, Believe
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2019, Library of Alexandria

I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, People, Giving
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much better you will feel.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Dog, Men
Robert Green Ingersoll (1951). “Letters”

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Evil, Triumph
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4190, Library of Alexandria

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Done, Resigned
Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right to desert his children if he can possibly be of use. As long as he can add to the comfort of those he loves, as long as he can . . . be of any use, it is his duty to remain.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Children, Fighting
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2305, Library of Alexandria

Hope is the consolation of the world.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, World, Consolation
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1061, Library of Alexandria

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Christian, Paganism
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2217, Library of Alexandria

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