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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

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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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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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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Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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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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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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Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
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Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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