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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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. CHESTERTON

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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Artist Wisdom Wise
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Courage Day Strong Veteran
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
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
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Error Final Human
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art Brain Spiritual
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense