It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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