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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
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.
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Adventure Doubt Men
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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
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
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
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
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