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

William Ralph Inge

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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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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.
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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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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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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
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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 Devil deserves zero tolerance.
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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
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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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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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