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Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

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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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So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

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The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

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There nearly always is a method in madness.

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The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

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