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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

G. K. Chesterton

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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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
[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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion

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