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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
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
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.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder

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