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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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
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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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
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
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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Education Man School Time
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth

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