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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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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

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And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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There nearly always is a method in madness.

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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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Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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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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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

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