The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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