An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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 past is not what it was.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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