The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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 test of happiness is gratitude.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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