When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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 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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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