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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

G. K. Chesterton

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
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.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See

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