Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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