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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

G. K. Chesterton

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
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
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
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

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