I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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