There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G. K. CHESTERTON
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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