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

G. K. Chesterton

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
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
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution

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

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