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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
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
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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Christian Order Running
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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art Brain Spiritual
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Eye Spring Story Sunset
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
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
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
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
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
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
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
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty