Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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