There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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