English - Clergyman | June 6, 1860 - February 26, 1954
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
William Inge
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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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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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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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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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