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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#best #best time #conscience #degeneration #escape

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

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#better #common #common sense #sense #than

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#follow #insane #man #new #old

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#happiness #punishment #result #reward #suffering

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

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

#blessed #convictions #courage #enough #every

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