Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONA dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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