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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

G. K. Chesterton

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
[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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
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
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle

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