The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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The past is not what it was.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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