Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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