One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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 is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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