Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
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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.Dean Inge
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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It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellowmen to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
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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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The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but as a law of Nature, has been the working faith of the West for about a hundred and fifty years.
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