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

G. K. Chesterton

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
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
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
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
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
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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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
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
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
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science

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