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The test of happiness is gratitude.

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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
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
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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Men Running Thinking
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Church Need Thinking
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
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
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot

The test of happiness is gratitude.

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