All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. CHESTERTONA thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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