Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONI 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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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