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The 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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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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Adventure Doubt Men
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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Christian Order Running
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
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.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
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
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
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Darkness Fact Simple
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real