A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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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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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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