Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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