A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONVariability 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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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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