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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

G. K. Chesterton

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
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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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
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
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 there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
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

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