Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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