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The present is the child, and the necessary child, of all the past, and the mother of all the future.
How To Reform Mankind (1896)
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
What Is Religion? (1899)
I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.
At A Child's Grave (1882)
But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.
A Tribe to Eban C. Ingersoll (1879)
Marriages are made by men and women; not by society; not by the state; not by the church; not by supernatural beings.
Is Divorce Wrong? (1889)
We are told “God so loved the world” that he is going to damn almost everybody.
Orthodoxy (1884)
Whenever an orthodox editor attacks an unbeliever, look out for kindness, charity and love.
A Christmas Sermon (1890)
They were unbalanced, emotional, hysterical, bigoted, hateful, loving, and insane.
Why I Am an Agnostic (1896)
Another good remedy for wife-beating is the abolition of the Catholic Church.