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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis
Truth Natural Organ Imagination Order Natural Order Meaning Reason
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C. S. Lewis
Elsewhere Earth Never Spread Pray Escapes Human Race Human Race Iniquity
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde
Ignorance Giving Community Touch Journalism Opinions Uneducated Us Keeps
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde
Patriotism Virtue Vicious
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. William Butler Yeats
Beautiful Time Enemy Innocent
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw
Hate Our Worst Indifferent Toward Sin Fellow Fellow Creatures Essence Them Inhumanity Creatures
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. William Butler Yeats
Genius Differences Unity Talent
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C. S. Lewis
Man Atheist Reading Young Too Remain Wishes Sound His Cannot Young Man Who Careful
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. James Joyce
Christopher Everyone Honored Posterity He Columbus Knows Because Discover America Last
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy. Maeve Binchy
Life Life Is Too Short Enemy Win Think Too Would Rather Remain Disagreements Always Friends Than Short Prefer Apologize Even Believed Right Rows
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. Jonathan Swift
Lie Words Consist Neighbour Indirect Does False Deceive Intention Your Speaking Injure Desire Position
It's an ongoing joy being a dad. Liam Neeson
Joy Father's Day Ongoing Being Dad
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde
Wish Our Punish Answer Prayers Gods Us
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. Oscar Wilde
Beautiful Good Better Ugly Than
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. Spike Milligan
Sit Tree Sure Cure
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? C. S. Lewis
Happiness Life God Thoughts Surrender Will Own Everyone Our Everything Remains Take Well Make Call Him How Sources False Going While Turn Then Us Interests Noticed Hard Less Agreeable Away Plausible
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter. Conor McGregor
You Man Yourself Win Better Challenge Become Lose Fighter Some Better Man Individual Go Might
The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable. Conor McGregor
You Will Become Seek More Uncomfortable Comfortable
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. Edmund Burke
Welfare Loudest General Suppose Most Error Anxious Public Popular
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. Oscar Wilde
Beautiful Time Joy Beauty Fall Philosophies Possession Follow Only Like Another The Only Thing Cannot Sand Eternity Away Seasons Thing Creeds Harm
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde
Feeling Every Sitter Artist Painted Portrait
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde
Great Dangerous Great Deal Dangerous Thing Absolutely Sincerity Deal Little Thing Fatal
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. Oscar Wilde
Will Prison Learns Many Lessons Things
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. C. S. Lewis
Inspirational World Miracles Too See Some Small Written Very Same Same Story Story Which Us Across Large Whole Letters
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. C. S. Lewis
Day You Grief Speak Reflection Live Living Every Thinking Shadow About Only Fact Misery Part Merely Endless Each Each Day Keep Suffer
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw
People World Circumstances Find Look Make Up Get Want Them Who
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