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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Media Silence Validation
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
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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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Audience People Right Wrong
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Grace Grant Gratitude
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject

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