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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Appearance Dog Gone
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
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
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
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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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
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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Life Men Principles
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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