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William Ralph Inge
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Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
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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.
William Ralph Inge
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.
William Ralph Inge
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
William Ralph Inge
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
William Ralph Inge
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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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.
William Ralph Inge
Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
William Ralph Inge
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
William Ralph Inge
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.
William Ralph Inge
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.
William Ralph Inge
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
William Ralph Inge
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
William Ralph Inge
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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