Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Quote by W R Inge

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Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who...

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who...

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before...

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before...

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy...

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy...

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty...

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty...

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common...

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common...

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to...

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to...

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever...

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever...

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small...

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small...

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient...

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient...

Worry is the interest paid on a problem before it occurs.

Worry is the interest paid on a problem before it occurs.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying....

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying....