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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand

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