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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

G. K. Chesterton

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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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
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 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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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
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

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