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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

G. K. Chesterton

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
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
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
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
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
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.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill

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