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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
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
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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Artist Wisdom Wise
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 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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Catholic Discipline Wall
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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Courage Day Strong Veteran
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
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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Bath Believe Practice
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