When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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