The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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The past is not what it was.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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