Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONVery few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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