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William Ralph Inge

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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
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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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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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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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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.
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The happy people are those who are producing something the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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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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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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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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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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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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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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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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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
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