I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEducation 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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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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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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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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