Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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