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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William Ralph Inge

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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
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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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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
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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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The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
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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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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
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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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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
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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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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
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