All Dean Inge Quotes
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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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
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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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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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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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It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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