Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTONI’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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