There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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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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