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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
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
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
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
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Apology Integrity Men
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic Glasses Wine
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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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Matter Want Writing
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
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