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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.

G. K. Chesterton

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
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
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
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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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
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
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
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

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