Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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