An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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