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

William Ralph Inge

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William Ralph Inge
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All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
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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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Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
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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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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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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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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
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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.
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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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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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Christianity promises to make men free it never promises to make them independent.
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We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
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