It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The past is not what it was.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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 things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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