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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
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
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
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
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
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Error Final Human
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime

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