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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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