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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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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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