Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONArt is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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