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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

G. K. Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
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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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
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
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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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

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