There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut 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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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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