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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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