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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. (William Ralph Inge)
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. View quote
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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. View quote
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God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul. View quote
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. View quote
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. View quote
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. View quote
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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time. View quote
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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. View quote
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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. View quote
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. (William Ralph Inge)
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. View quote
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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. View quote
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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. View quote
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. View quote
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. View quote
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction. View quote
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. View quote
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The phase of thought or feeling which we call Mysticism has its origin in that which is the raw material of all religion, and perhaps of all philosophy and art as well, namely, that dim consciousness of the beyond, which is part of our nature as human beings. Men have given different names to these "obstinate questionings of sense and outward things." We may call them, if we will, a sort of higher instinct, perhaps an anticipation of the evolutionary process; or an extension of the frontier of consciousness; or, in religious language, the voice of God speaking to us. Mysticism arises when we try to bring this higher consciousness into relation with the other contents of our minds. View quote
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Looking back, I think I can separate the years when I was happy and those when I was unhappy. But perhaps at the time I should have judged differently. View quote
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