One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONGratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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