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

  William Ralph Inge

  Men, Average, Littles

  Outspoken Essays Patriotism (pp. 38-9)

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Wisdom, Littles, Mankind

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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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Believe, Men, Grace

  William Ralph Inge (1925). “Outspoken essays”

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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 Ralph Inge

  Self, Affection, Intellect

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Mistake, Mind, Important

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

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• All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

  William Ralph Inge

  Love Is, Free Love, Holy

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• My dear, we live in an age of transition.

  William Ralph Inge

  Age, Transition, Dear

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

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• Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

  William Ralph Inge

  Admiration, Institutions, Contempt

  William Ralph Inge (1925). “Outspoken essays”

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• No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

  William Ralph Inge

  Civilization, Healthy, Foundation

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

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• Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

  William Ralph Inge

  Judging, Soldier, Battle

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• The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

  William Ralph Inge

  Thinking, Pulse, World

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• God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

  William Ralph Inge

  Heart, Adversity, Giving

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• Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

  William Ralph Inge

  Fashion, Hero, Sacrifice

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

  William Ralph Inge

  Believe, Men, People

  More Lay Thoughts of a Dean (1931) pt. 4, ch. 1

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• The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

  William Ralph Inge

  Civilization, Boredom, Revolution

  'End of an Age' (1948) ch. 6

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• The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

  William Ralph Inge

  Knowledge, Men, Tree

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• I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

  William Ralph Inge

  Years, No Fear, Palestine

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• But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

  William Ralph Inge

  Powerful, Men, Average

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.

  William Ralph Inge

  Religious, Men, Numbers

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• All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

  William Ralph Inge

  Spiritual, World, Recognition

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

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• If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

  William Ralph Inge

  Running, Names, World

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Heaven, Paradise, Fool

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