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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.

G. K. Chesterton

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
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
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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
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
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
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See

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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