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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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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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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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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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This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

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He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

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[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

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Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

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The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

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Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

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