An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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