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Religion is caught, not taught.

William Ralph Inge

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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world it has proved itself stronger than death.
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The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
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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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The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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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 greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
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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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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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Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
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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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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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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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