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William Ralph Inge Inspirational Quotes (119)

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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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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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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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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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Christianity promises to make men free it never promises to make them independent.
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Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
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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.
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
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