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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

G. K. Chesterton

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
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
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
Those 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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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
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
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
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

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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