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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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