The test of happiness is gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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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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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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