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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
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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Art Brain Spiritual
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
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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Clever Men Stupid
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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Apology Integrity Men
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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