Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics 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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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