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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

William Ralph Inge

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This is old, therefore it is good the other says, This is new, therefore it is better.
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Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
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We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
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Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
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Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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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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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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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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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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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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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
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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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