America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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