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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
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
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
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
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem

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