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    George MacDonald
    “Past tears are present strength.”
    ― George MacDonald, Phantastes
    tags: sorrow, strength, tears
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
    15762 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
    tags: church, war
    39 likes

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  • #4
    “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
    ― Warren Wiersbe
    tags: diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling
    589 likes

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  • #5
    Isaac Newton
    “Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: diplomacy
    411 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: love
    20540 likes

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  • #7
    Benjamin Franklin
    “...there will be sleeping enough in the grave....”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: inspirational
    107 likes

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  • #8
    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom
    2384 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
    tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion
    1532 likes

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  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Christendom in Dublin
    146 likes

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  • #12
    G.K. Chesterton
    “It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: faith, sense-of-humor
    84 likes

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  • #13
    Edmund Burke
    “Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.”
    ― Edmund Burke
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    Edmund Burke
    “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

    [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
    ― Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
    tags: arrogance, judgment, knowledge, omniscience, pomposity, preface-to-brissot-s-address, presumption, ridicule, truth
    160 likes

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    Edmund Burke
    “It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
    ― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
    tags: character, discipline, freedom
    171 likes

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  • #16
    Edmund Burke
    “No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: fear
    120 likes

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  • #17
    Edmund Burke
    “Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    107 likes

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  • #18
    Edmund Burke
    “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: wealth
    100 likes

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  • #19
    Edmund Burke
    “Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: admiration, happiness, woman
    578 likes

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  • #20
    Hilaire Belloc
    “The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.”
    ― Hilaire Belloc
    tags: catholic, catholic-church, catholicism
    73 likes

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  • #21
    Margaret Thatcher
    “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: entitlement, government
    816 likes

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  • #22
    Margaret Thatcher
    “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women
    3782 likes

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  • #23
    Margaret Thatcher
    “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: appearances, power
    793 likes

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  • #24
    Margaret Thatcher
    “If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    144 likes

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  • #25
    Ronald Reagan
    “If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: inspirational, religon, separation-of-church-and-state
    727 likes

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    Ronald Reagan
    “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: freedom, inspirational, personal-freedom
    871 likes

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    Ronald Reagan
    “I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: abortion, obvious, right-to-life
    898 likes

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  • #28
    Ronald Reagan
    “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: accomplishment, achievement, inspirational, misattributed, modesty, recognition
    553 likes

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  • #29
    Ronald Reagan
    “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: patriotism, taxation
    332 likes

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  • #30
    Ronald Reagan
    “Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: advice-for-daily-living
    413 likes



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