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

G. K. Chesterton

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
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
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
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
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
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister

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