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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
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.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
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
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution

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