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"28 William Inge Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 June 1860. Died: 26 February 1954 | Author | Priest |

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

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.

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.

Happiest People Cause Happy
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Faith Belief Reality Values
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

Christian Pessimist System Optimism
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Literature Best Trade Art
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Worry Interest Paid Trouble
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
Aim Education Knowledge Values
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

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.

Time Influence Character Child
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The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Soul Dyed Color Leisure thoughts
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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Marry Get View Life
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Wisdom Wise Degree Common sense
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

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.

Feast Life Paying Share
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Faith Choice Act True
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Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

Religion Way Walking Talking
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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won
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.

World Think Act Pulse
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

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

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

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.

Men Women Love People
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Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.

Tyrannies Country Suffer Majority
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William Inge Quotes & Sayings