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William Inge Inspirational Quotes (128)

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I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
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Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
William Ralph Inge
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
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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.
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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
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Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
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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.
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Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
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The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
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The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
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Joy is the triumph of life it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.
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A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
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They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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