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Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Glasses Wine
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
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
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
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
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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Half Literature Mean
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
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
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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Matter Want Writing
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
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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
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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Adventure Doubt Men
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

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