The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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