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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

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It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

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When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

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It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

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Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

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[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

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The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

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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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'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

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I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

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Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

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