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Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

William Ralph Inge

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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
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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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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.
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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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A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
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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 greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
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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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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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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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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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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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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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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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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
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