The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G. K. CHESTERTONDemocracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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