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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
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
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
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
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time

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