Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTONExactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The past is not what it was.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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