The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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