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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

G. K. Chesterton

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 have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious

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