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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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