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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

G. K. Chesterton

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
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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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man

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