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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Life Men Principles
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
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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Christian Order Running
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
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
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.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
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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Catholic Discipline Wall
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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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Courage Day Strong Veteran