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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

G. K. Chesterton

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
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
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
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
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
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

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