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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

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Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

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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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Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

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Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

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We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

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[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

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There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

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Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.

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Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

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Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

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