#he

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#best #flourishes #half #literature #trade

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#beauty #blessedness #great #great idea #healthful

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#asleep #away #childish #come #day

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#be happy #good #happy #here #make

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#eyes #heart #liberty #light #love

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#claim #every #giving #human #human being

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#anything #assistance #every #except #fact

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#courage #death #even #men #moral

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#hear #hope #listening #love #night

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#every #every man #labor #lives #man