Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONThose 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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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. 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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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