Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTONO 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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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 whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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