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The test of happiness is gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Church Need Thinking
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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Country People Regard Riddle
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
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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Matter Want Writing
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
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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Appearance Dog Gone
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.

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