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

G. K. Chesterton

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
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
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
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
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand

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

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