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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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The 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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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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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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