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Inspirational Quotes by William Ralph Inge
- Originality is undetected plagiarism.
- Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
- Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
- To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
- True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
- My dear, we live in an age of transition.
- Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
- 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…
- The happy people are those who are producing something...
- Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
- Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
- Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.
- Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
- This is old, therefore it is good”; the other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.
- No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
- Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
- Religion is caught, not taught.
- To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
- Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
- Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
- The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
- Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
- There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
- It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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