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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

G. K. Chesterton

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
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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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
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
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization

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