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

G. K. Chesterton

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
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
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
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
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
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
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

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

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