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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

G. K. Chesterton

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
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
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
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
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird

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