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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

G. K. Chesterton

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Earth Exception Nature Wonder
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Problem See Solution
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule

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