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There are some desires that are not desirable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
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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Courage Day Strong Veteran
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
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Apology Integrity Men
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
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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Adventure Doubt Men
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
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying

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