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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. ↗

— Dean Inge

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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ↗

— Dean Inge

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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. ↗

— Dean Inge

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

— Dean Inge

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

— Dean Inge

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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

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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. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Courage without conscience is a wild beast. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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