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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

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Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

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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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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

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The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

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When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

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In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

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When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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