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28 William Inge Quotes & Sayings
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28 William Inge Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 6 June 1860. Died: 26 February 1954 |
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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.
William Inge
Prayer
Man
Know
Himself
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Inge
Little
Mankind
Governed
Wisdom
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Inge
Happiest
People
Cause
Happy
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
William Inge
Faith
Belief
Reality
Values
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
William Inge
Christian
Pessimist
System
Optimism
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Inge
Literature
Best
Trade
Art
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Inge
Worry
Interest
Paid
Trouble
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Aim
Education
Knowledge
Values
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
William Inge
Rewards
Punishments
Consequences
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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
William Inge
Time
Influence
Character
Child
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The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
William Inge
Soul
Dyed
Color
Leisure thoughts
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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
William Inge
Marry
Get
View
Life
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
William Inge
Wisdom
Wise
Degree
Common sense
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
William Inge
Wise man
Knows
Value
Things
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
William Inge
Feast
Life
Paying
Share
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
William Inge
Object
Philosophy
Mind
People's
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
William Inge
Good government
Human
Blessings
Nation
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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.
William Inge
Faith
Risk
Venture
Feel
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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.
William Inge
Challenge
God
Faith
Overcome
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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.
William Inge
Faith
Choice
Act
True
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Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
William Inge
Religion
Way
Walking
Talking
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Fear
Battle
Freedom
Won
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The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
William Inge
World
Think
Act
Pulse
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
William Inge
Vulgar
Mind
Mistakes
Important
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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place
William Inge
Faith
Will
Affections
Place
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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little
William Inge
Wealth
Soul
Feel
Poverty
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It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.
William Inge
Men
Women
Love
People
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Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
William Inge
Tyrannies
Country
Suffer
Majority
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