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The test of happiness is gratitude.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
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
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
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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