I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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