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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.

G. K. Chesterton

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The past is not what it was.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
[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 issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
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
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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