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The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
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Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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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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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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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
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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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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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God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
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Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
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A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
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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.
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A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
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Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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