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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
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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Church Need Thinking
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
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
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
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.
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Men Secret Sublime
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.
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Art Brain Spiritual
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
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
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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
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
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
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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Appearance Dog Gone
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You

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