Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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