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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
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
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Life Men Principles
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Half Literature Mean
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
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
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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