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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

G. K. Chesterton

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
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
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
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
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society

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