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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has...

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The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so mu...

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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...

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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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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...

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Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have ...

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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that...

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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thin...

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The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war th...

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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they a...

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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

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William Ralph Inge

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Born: 1860-06-06

Died: 1954-02-26

William Ralph Inge (6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954), popularly referred to simply as Dean Inge, was an English author, Anglican prelate, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.More