The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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[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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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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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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