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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

G. K. Chesterton

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
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
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
[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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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong

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