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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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