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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

G. K. Chesterton

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
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
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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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Education Man School Time
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
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
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way

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