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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Religion is caught, not taught.
The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
My dear, we live in an age of transition.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
The happy people are those who are producing something.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
