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William Inge Inspirational Quotes (128)

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From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men
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Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
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I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults before production, I see only its virtues.
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It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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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.
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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
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Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
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Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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Religion is caught, not taught.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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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.
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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
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The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
William Ralph Inge
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