Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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