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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
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
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
[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
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
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 most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
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
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 more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild

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