Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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