The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
G. K. CHESTERTONI have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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