Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe 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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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