Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOnly man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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 one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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