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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Appearance Dog Gone
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Courage Day Strong Veteran
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 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
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
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
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
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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Catholic Glasses Wine
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
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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Art Brain Spiritual
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Bath Believe Practice
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
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
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
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
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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Believe Country Government People