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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

G. K. Chesterton

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
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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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason

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