I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe past is not what it was.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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[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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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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