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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

G. K. Chesterton

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
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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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand

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