God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The past is not what it was.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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