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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
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
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
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
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
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 are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
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
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
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
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
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
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
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
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
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
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
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn