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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

G. K. Chesterton

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
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
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
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible

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