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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

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman

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