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Quote:Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.[Robert Frost]

Quote:The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.[Thomas Paine]

Quote:Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.[Socrates]

Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.[W. R. Inge]

Quote:Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.[Nachman of Bratslav]

Quote:Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.[Plato]

Quote:Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. [Earl Warren]



Definitions of: due

Definition: Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

Definition: Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.

Definition: Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.

Definition: Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.

Definition: Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.

Definition: That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.

Definition: Right; just title or claim.

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