They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need hav…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).
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