The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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