There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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