These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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