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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

G. K. Chesterton

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
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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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
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
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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
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
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible

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