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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

G. K. Chesterton

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
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 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
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand

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