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Thanks are the highest form of thought.

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.
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Adventure Doubt Men
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
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
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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Ancient Pride Unfreese
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
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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Appearance Dog Gone
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
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

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