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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
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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Eye Spring Story Sunset
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
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Beautiful Beauty
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
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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Bath Believe Practice
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test

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