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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

G. K. Chesterton

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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 is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
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
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
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
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
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
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
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
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View

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