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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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Artist Wisdom Wise
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Error Final Human
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
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.
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Apology Integrity Men
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
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
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
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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Clever Men Stupid
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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