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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

G. K. Chesterton

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
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
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject

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