Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll government is an ugly necessity.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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