The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars.
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To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it.
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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
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We say, not lightly but very literally, that the truth has made us free. They say that it makes us so free that it cannot be the truth. To them it is like believing in fairyland to believe in such freedom as we enjoy. It is like believing in men with wing.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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