#oft

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#hardens #hurt #makes #narrow #often

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#brave men #men #middle #softness #surface

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#both #conflict #cure #everybody #give

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#consists #dog #forget #hate #iniquity

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#hearts #led #much #oftener #than

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#completely #either #men #noble #nuance

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#assert #believe #cannot #gods #had

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#behavior #christians #cruel #dissenters #even

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#aware #i #i am #i do #interesting

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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