Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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