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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton

The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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