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

G. K. Chesterton

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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
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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
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
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
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
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking

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