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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Courage Day Strong Veteran
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
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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Matter Want Writing
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love