Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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