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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

G. K. Chesterton

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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
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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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
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 always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
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
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves

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