The past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTONThose 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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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