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All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

William Ralph Inge

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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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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 wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
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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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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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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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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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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
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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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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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