But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCourage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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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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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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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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