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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

G. K. Chesterton

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
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
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See

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