The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA 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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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