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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doubtful Men Pilot
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Life Men Principles
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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Eye Spring Story Sunset
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
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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Believe Country Government People
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
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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Love Trust Way World
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Church Need Thinking
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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Appearance Dog Gone
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love