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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
William Ralph Inge
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In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
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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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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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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 proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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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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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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