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• Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

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  Book, Reading, Boredom

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• The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

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  Mistake, Mind, Important

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

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  Country, Military, Noble

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• Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

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  Civilization, Disease

  "The Idea of Progress". Romanes Lecture by William Ralph Inge, May 27, 1920.

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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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  Prayer, Energy, Normal

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• Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

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  Giving Up, Men, World

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• Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

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  Accountability, Get Up, Share

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• In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

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  Logical, Adopted, Englishmen

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• "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

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  "More Lay Thoughts of a Dean" by William Ralph Inge, (p. 200), 1931.

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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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  Journey, Men, Apes

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series 'Confessio Fidei'

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• True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

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  Believe, Reality, Belief

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• I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

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  Thinking, Age, Fifty

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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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.

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  Risk, Elements, Venture

  William Ralph Inge (1910). “Faith and Its Psychology”

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• A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

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  Character, Judging, Personality

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• Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

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  Rivals, Way, Institutions

  William Ralph Inge (2015). “The Victorian Age”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

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  Blessing, Government, Humans

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• For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.

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  Animal, Men, Self

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• When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

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  Parent, Age, Paradise

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Labels & Libels”

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• Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

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  Grief, Stronger, World

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• The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

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  Inspirational, Children, Character

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

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  Moving, Reality, Views

  William Ralph Inge (1899). “Christian Mysticism: Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford”

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• Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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  Originality, Plagiarism

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• Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

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  Heaven, Paradise, Fool

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

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  Men, Average, Littles

  Outspoken Essays Patriotism (pp. 38-9)

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• It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.

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  Believe, Men, Grace

  William Ralph Inge (1925). “Outspoken essays”

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