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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art Brain Spiritual
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
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
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
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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Darkness Fact Simple
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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