"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.“
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"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God."
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"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
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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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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
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"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
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"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
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