The test of happiness is gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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[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.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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