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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

G. K. Chesterton

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 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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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
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
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
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
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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