Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter 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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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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