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

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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The past is not what it was.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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