A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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