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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
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
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation

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