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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

G. K. Chesterton

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
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
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
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
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
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
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
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
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
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism

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