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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
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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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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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Darkness Fact Simple
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
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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Country People Regard Riddle
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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Catholic Discipline Wall
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art Brain Spiritual
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense

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