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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

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
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
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 whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
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
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time

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